Not sure an RAF Officer would rant about nukes during the cold war, especially to civil parties, it was pretty much a taboo subject. It has not been mentioned in this thread before your post, unless you read it somewhere else, James?

I found several sources of weapons removal, here’s just one of them:

http://greenham.greatnow.com/index_000001.htm

http://greenham.greatnow.com/index_000002.htm

http://greenham.greatnow.com/index_000003.htm

http://greenham.greatnow.com/index_000004.htm

http://greenham.greatnow.com/index_000005.htm

http://greenham.greatnow.com/index_000006.htm

http://greenham.greatnow.com/index_000007.htm

bear with it, it seems to be easier to click on my links than navigate from page to page.

Baz

Something for the Spitfire collector

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Four-original-Spitfire-Mk-IX-propeller-blades-/280569022092?pt=UK_Collectables_Militaria_LE&hash=item415337868c

I would guess that sometime in the near future that some of this debris will have to be removed (or gathered together) for fear of a collision. This could be catastrophic if two items hit at several thousand miles an hour, rendering a large amount of space dangerous for years to come.

Baz

Never rely on Wiki, Yes the cruise missiles had famously arrived by then (think mid seventies), but nukes had been stored at GC from the mid 1950s for the resident SAC units with B-47 etc.

Sorry James, was being lazy

Yes the B47s (and I think the odd B58) were armed with nukes and the aformentioned nukes were stored at Greenham common, however, the period that nukes were stored here was from 1954 to 1st July 1964.

No nukes then until March 1976 for three months whilst Upper Heyford had its runway resurfaced and her F111s were temporarily based at Greenham.

Then nothing until the cruise missiles arrived November 1983.

So apart from the 76 detachment no nukes between 1964 to 1983.

Baz

Sounds like Nashio testing his new go-kart.

😀

I might somehow be misunderstanding this post Baz, but this was fairly and squarly within the nuclear period of Greenham Common, which was an RAF Base with a Station Commander.

No James

Incident with B707 early 70s, Nukes arrived 1980

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Greenham_Common

Baz