A military convoy was spotted carrying up to six nuclear warheads headed along the motorway through Glasgow to an arms depot on Friday. The convoy was seen only a mile south of Glasgow city center, heading to Royal Naval Armaments Depot Coulport on Loch Long, according to NukeWatch, an organization that tracks and monitors the convoys that transport the UK’s Trident nuclear warheads.
The weapons of mass destruction were a ‘reminder of the UK’s contribution to nuclear terror,’ the group said, amid heightened tensions between NATO and Russia – which recently put its own nuclear weapons on high alert. The route is a common one for UK defense vehicles, where Trident nuclear warheads were also spotted in May 2021, according to Glasgow Live.
The route was captured on video taking in May 2021 and in March of that year. Nukewatch UK Campaigner Jane Tallents told GlasgowLive : “We think that’s the most likely [route] at that time of night. “And looking at the timings of it I would say yes that’s probably what it did, took the M74 onto the M8 over the Erskine Bridge and up the A82 at Loch Lomondside.
“I know it was about 11.30 pm last night that it got into [RNAD] Coulport. I think there were four warhead carriers I believe. “Our reckoning is that each of those trucks can carry two but one of the trucks is empty as a spare in case breaks down.
So if there’s four we expect there to be six warheads, or up to six warheads anyway”. The convoy is believed to be the first to pass through Glasgow in five months, and while it comes amid the “very, very alarming” Russian invasion of Ukraine, Nukewatch UK says it is “routine”.
