{"id":260,"date":"2025-06-28T19:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T19:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2025\/06\/28\/a-brief-history-of-nuclear-weapons-in-the-royal-air-force\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T19:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T19:56:08","slug":"a-brief-history-of-nuclear-weapons-in-the-royal-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2025\/06\/28\/a-brief-history-of-nuclear-weapons-in-the-royal-air-force\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of Nuclear Weapons in the Royal Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"258\" src=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Image-1-Tornado-and-Vulcan--e1751119371876-460x258.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Following the announcement that the Royal Air Force is regaining nuclear weapons, we explore the service\u2019s history using nukes, explaining why they were originally abandoned in 1998. For 43 years, the RAF was at the forefront of the UK\u2019s nuclear deterrent, with this mission making up a significant portion of the UK\u2019s Cold War deterrent [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/2025\/06\/28\/history-of-nuke-royal-air-force\/\">A Brief History of Nuclear Weapons in the Royal Air Force<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/\">The Aviationist<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the announcement that the Royal Air Force is regaining nuclear weapons, we explore the service\u2019s history using nukes, explaining why they were originally abandoned in 1998. For 43 years, the RAF was at the forefront of the UK\u2019s nuclear deterrent, with this mission making up a significant portion of the UK\u2019s Cold War deterrent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}