An unmarked army convoy carrying "as much as six" nuclear warheads has handed by way of Glasgow.
The car was tracked from the M6, close to Kendal and was noticed on the M74 at Lesmahagow, round 25 miles south of town.
It then arrived on the Royal Naval Armaments Depot Coulport (RNAD) at Loch Lengthy in Argyll and Bute at 11.30pm on Friday, March 19.
It comes amidst heightened tensions surrounding Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, Glasgow Dwell studies.
Nukewatch UK tracks and displays convoys transporting UK's Trident nuclear warheads by street from the Atomic Weapons Institution Burghfield close to Studying to Coulport.
They consider the convoy travelled west on the M74 by way of Glasgow's southside earlier than becoming a member of the M8 south of the Kingston Bridge.
It then handed over the Erskine Bridge earlier than travelling previous Loch Lomond on the A82.
The route is identical the unmarked army convoy was captured on video taking again in Might 2021.
Likewise, it's also believed to be the identical route that was taken a couple of months earlier in March of that yr.
Confirming its passage by way of Glasgow by way of the M74 and M8, Nukewatch UK Campaigner Jane Tallents instructed Glasgow Dwell: "We predict that is the almost definitely [route] at the moment of evening.
"And searching on the timings of it I'd say sure that is most likely what it did, took the M74 onto the M8 over the Erskine Bridge and up the A82 at Loch Lomondside.
"I do know it was about 11.30pm final evening that it bought into [RNAD] Coulport. I feel there have been 4 warhead carriers I consider.
"Our reckoning is that every of these vans can carry two however one of many vans is empty as a spare in case breaks down.
"So if there's 4 we count on there to be six warheads, or as much as six warheads anyway".
The convoy is believed to be the primary to move by way of Glasgow in 5 months, and whereas it comes amid the ""very, very alarming" Russian invasion of Ukraine, Nukewatch UK say it's "routine."
This 'routine' sees convoys transport the nuclear warheads from AWE Burghfield - the place the warheads are each made and bear restore works - again to RNAD Coulport to be placed on the Royal Navy's nuclear submarines.
Jane mentioned: "There hasn't been one since October final yr which is a bit unusual. However there was a little bit of a flurry ultimately.
"There have to be some reasoning of their insanity however they'd by no means enlighten us what that's. However yeah that is again to the routine, simply refurbishment.
"They aren't arming as much as bomb Russia or something like that, however they might do this anytime.
"I do not assume this convoy is of any extra concern than the truth that we're all the time, 24/7, armed and able to begin a nuclear battle. And yeah clearly this present scenario could be very, very alarming.
"And the way rapidly some incident might simply provoke one thing that will get all out of our management rapidly.
"All of the issues that a few of us have frightened about continually because the 60s, they arrive to move actually. Individuals have forgotten about it however they're there.
"And this form of stress is strictly why we mentioned when the Soviet Union fell aside that NATO ought to reply by disarming the nuclear weapons - that was the time to take a seat down and eliminate them.
"It wasn't simply Russia that did not need to, it was America, Britain and France have been all fairly eager to maintain them as effectively and play energy video games so it is set us up for all this".
With RNAD Coulport positioned simply over 35 miles away from Glasgow metropolis centre, the truth that nuclear warheads have been being transported on roads by way of town is, in Jane's phrases, "the truth of getting them".
And whereas she believes that the unmarked army convoy is not an indication that the UK is "arming as much as bomb Russia," she expressed her considerations over what might occur within the occasion of an accident on the M8 or M74 involving the convoy.
She added: "Yep. That is the truth of getting them. But when it got here to nuclear battle it would not actually matter the place you might be, there is not any escape with that.
"And there is not any preparations realistically that assist actually with that. However when it comes to the convoys themselves if there was an accident with them, can be prepared? I do not know."
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