The impact was felt not only in strategic terms but also brought a culture shock to the area, albeit some economic benefit.

SCOTLAND was pressed to accept nuclear weapons on the Clyde so that US sailors could enjoy the Glasgow nightlife, according to recently declassified documents. The documents, subject to a new BBC ...

A west coast loch formerly home to US nuclear submarines has now become a dumping ground – for raw sewage. Data has revealed dozens of cases of potentially illegal discharges of sewage into the Holy ...

WORLD War Three could have engulfed the planet following a collision between two nuclear submarines off the coast of Scotland, it has been revealed. New declassified CIA documents show the potentially ...

COUNTRY lovers are being given the chance to buy their very own holy loch. COUNTRY lovers are being given the chance to buy their very own holy loch. Loch Staoineig on the historic island of Iona is ...

I READ with more than a passing interest the article on the arrival of the Polaris fleet in the Holy Loch in 1961 (“The canoe versus the submarine”, Herald Decades, Herald magazine, May 21). Most ...

ARE you really gonna put these leaflets on shipboard tomorrow, boy?”, an amused American newsman asked the CND demonstrator in the bright yellow lifejacket. “I came over from the States specially for ...

A cable marked "secret eyes only" addressed to US secretary of state Henry Kissinger detailed the collision between the US and Russian submarines near Holy Loch, then a US naval base, in November 1974 ...

Dunoon was no stranger to submarines and their crews by the time the first Americans arrived there in March 1961 but establishing a US base in Scotland was still a controversial move. The Argyll town ...

More than 200 former American servicemen have arrived in Dunoon for a ceremony to mark the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Holy Loch submarine base. When it closed in 1992, there were ...