The C-17As of the 62nd Airlift Wing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord serve as the Prime Nuclear Airlift Force (PNAF), the only airlift wing that is authorized to transport the Air Force’s nuclear warheads.
Read moreThe Steadfast Noon exercise will practice employment of non-strategic nuclear weapons, like this unarmed B61-4 nuclear gravity bomb dropped by an F-15E from the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath.
Read moreThe US Air Force base at Lakenheath has been added to the list of nuclear weapons storage sites being upgraded in Europe. US Defense Department documents show that NATO…
Read moreThe F/A-18F is a two-seat version of the F/A-18E. Image: US Department of Defense The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has quietly removed the F/A-18F Super Hornet from its…
Read moreUSAF personnel loading a B61 nuclear bomb trainer on an F-16 fighter-bomber at Aviano Air Base NATO announced Monday that it had started…
Read moreThe Trump administration clearly sees the Compliance Report as a tool to provide justification for shedding treaties.
Read moreShould the U.S. Air Force withdraw the roughly 50 B61 nuclear bombs it stores at the Incirlik Air Base in Turkey? The question has come to a head after Turkey’s…
Read moreAmidst a deepening rift between the United States and Russia about the role of non-strategic nuclear weapons, Russia has begun to upgrade an Air Force nuclear weapons storage site near…
Read more“In the future, NATO might have to rely as much on its agility and capacity for innovation as it has previously relied on its military technological advantage,” says a new…
Read moreLast year, dozens of categories of previously unclassified information about Afghan military forces were designated as classified, making it more difficult to publicly track the progress of the…
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