This web site is best viewed in full screen x and medium font with Internet Explorer, Firefox or Netscape. To subscribe to FAS's list serve, click here. Nuclear-Capable U. Navy Ship Visits to Denmark In the years between the initial Danish formulation of a prohibition against nuclear weapons on its territory in and the completion of the U. The type of nuclear warships included aircraft carriers, submarines, cruisers, destroyer, frigates, amphibious landing ships, ammunition ships, and fuel ships.
The Regulus I carried a 40 kiloton W5 warhead or, from , a 2 megaton W27 warhead. Navy The first nuclear visit took place only a new months after Danish prime minister H. Hansen declared that Denmark would not accept nuclear weapons on its territory. The Danish policy statement at the time did not explicitly mention nuclear weapons on visiting warships, but is though to have been a general ban against nuclear weapons on all parts of the territory - including harbors and territorial waters.
The USS Macon signaled the coming on a new era of widespread deployment of nuclear weapons on warships. While sailing from Scotland enroute to Denmark, the ship briefly sailed north into the Norwegian Sea north of the Arctic Circle where it conducted a simulated attack with a nuclear-armed Regulus missile.
The ASROC anti-submarine rocket and the Terrier anti-aircraft missile were by far the two most frequent visitors to Denmark, reflecting the extraordinarily widespread deployment of these systems in the U. Navy during the Cold War. Anti-submarine aircraft carriers with nuclear depth charges visited until but discontinued after that as U.
Navy began phasing out these smaller carriers the United Kingdom retained its anti-submarine aircraft carriers and continued nuclear port visits to Denmark until The ASTOR nuclear torpedo visited onboard a limited number of submarines until the weapon system was retired in The nuclear "fingerprint" on the individual ships vary, but except for the amphibious landing ships and fuel ships, all the warships listed in the table below underwent extensive nuclear weapons training and passed vigorous inspections to become certified to carry and launch nuclear weapons.
