NUCLEAR warheads from Pershing II missiles formerly based in Europe
are about to return in the form of nuclear bombs carried by aircraft. On
7 May of this year, the US Department of Energy transferred the first ‘physics
package’ – the nuclear core and high explosives that ignite it – from a
Pershing II warhead into its new bomb casing, according to letters from
the department to Greenpeace. Production of the new bomb began in quantity
in June.
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