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Declassified government documents reveal US forces in Britain are exempt from nuclear safety rules
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DECLASSIFIED government documents have revealed that US military bases across Britain are exempt from nuclear safety rules.

Disclosed through legal work by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and their lawyers at Leigh Day, visiting US forces are not bound by Britain’s emergency radiation laws, leaving bases like RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk under no legal obligation to prepare for nuclear accidents.

There are at least 10,000 US personnel stationed at 13 RAF bases in Britain, one of which, RAF Lakenheath, is being prepared to host US nuclear warheads. 

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