The decision means that Britain’s air force will have a nuclear role for the first time since the end of the Cold War.

A fighter jets capable of carrying nuclear weapons from the United States and will be joining NATO's dual-capable aircraft nuclear mission. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to make the announcement Wednesday,

The British government said on Tuesday that it would purchase a dozen F-35A fighter jets capable of firing tactical nuclear weapons in what it described as the biggest expansion of its nuclear deterrent in a generation.