The UK will buy 12 F-35A fighter planes that can carry nuclear warheads in the biggest strengthening of the country’s nuclear deterrent for a generation, the British government has said.
The move, which was announced to coincide with the NATO summit in the Netherlands, will give Britain’s Royal Air Force a role in the UK’s nuclear programme for the first time since the 1990s, when defence cuts were made following the end of the Cold War.
