Britain hid nuclear weapons in Cyprus and Singapore during the Cold War without telling the unsuspecting host governments, The Sunday Times reported yesterday citing a soon-to-be-published study.
The British paper says that as early as 1960, Britain deployed tactical nuclear weapons at its Royal Air Force base in Akrotiri in southern Cyprus, according the Chicago-based Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
The report claims that two years later, then British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan personally authorized nuclear arms to be stored in the RAF's Tengah base in Singapore. The leaders of the two countries at the time were not aware of the deployment. AFP