Exclusive: Pentagon files suggest some new facilities will store nuclear arsenal, with $163m also earmarked for secretive spy base More than $4bn (£3bn) is to be spent upgrading the US government’s military and spy bases in the UK, according to official documents that shed light on the UK’s apparent role as a secretive site for American nuclear weapons. The construction plans include building new bunkers in Suffolk, which will seemingly be used to store nuclear weapons, and modernising facilities to help covert units run secret operations. The US military is also planning to upgrade its base in Gloucestershire, from which waves of powerful bombers attacked Iran earlier this year on the orders of Donald Trump. The plans highlight the breadth of the US military and security establishment’s footprint in the UK, where more than 12,000 US military personnel are spread around at least 15 bases and facilities. There are questions about whether Britain should continue to host the US installations on its soil. For more than seven decades, successive governments have seen the bases as a foundation of the UK’s military partnership with the US. But the alliance has been jeopardised by Trump’s
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The Pentagon has been slow to disclose injuries to US troops during the ongoing war with Iran, avoiding publicly confirming the fallout from Iranian attacks and mostly reserving totals to a military website that lags…
Read original at CNN →In a closed-door briefing earlier this month, key Pentagon officials sat down with House spending leaders from both parties to make an urgent case to quickly deliver more cash to fund the US war in Iran. But when…
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Read original at CNN →Exclusive: Pentagon files suggest some new facilities will store nuclear arsenal, with $163m also earmarked for secretive spy base More than $4bn (£3bn) is to be spent upgrading the US government’s military and spy…
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The Pentagon has been slow to disclose injuries to US troops during the ongoing war with Iran, avoiding publicly confirming the fallout from Iranian attacks and mostly reserving totals to a military website that lags events by several days…
View source →In a closed-door briefing earlier this month, key Pentagon officials sat down with House spending leaders from both parties to make an urgent case to quickly deliver more cash to fund the US war in Iran. But when pressed by members of both…
View source →This article was published on July 3, 2026 Court documents released this week lay bare the back-and-forth between Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and Pentagon undersecretary Emil Michael. The real fight was not over access to Claude, but over…
View source →Speaker Mike Johnson has once again lost a battle against hardline conservatives for control of his own House floor â and he has no clear way out. A small group of GOP hardliners, led by firebrand Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida,…
View source →Exclusive: Pentagon files suggest some new facilities will store nuclear arsenal, with $163m also earmarked for secretive spy base More than $4bn (£3bn) is to be spent upgrading the US government’s military and spy bases in the UK,…
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