UK to buy F-35 stealth jets that can carry US nuclear warheads

The UK will buy at least 12 F-35 stealth jets that can carry nuclear warheads in the most significant strengthening of its nuclear capability in a generation, the government has said. Sir Keir Starmer told a summit of NATO allies in The Hague that the new squadron will join an alliance mission that can be armed with US nuclear weapons. The US president, a long-standing NATO sceptic, raised questions about whether he would uphold the alliance's founding Article 5 principle - that an attack on one is an attack on all - before he even arrived in the Dutch city last night.