Now the replica has been built, it will be dismantled and shipped to a US air force base in North Carolina.

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Only last month, it fired one in the Gulf of Mexico towards a test range at the Eglin US Air Force Base in western Florida.

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It saw the Landsat-8 mission hurtle skywards on an Atlas rocket from the US Air Force base at Vandenberg shortly after 10:00 local time (18:00 GMT).

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As his family lived close to Greenham Common in Berkshire - a former air-force base where nuclear-armed US planes were stationed in the 1980s - Mr Cameron said he had also been aware of the arguments about nuclear weapons and Britain's defence.

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In Tampa, Mrs Kelley has served as an unpaid "social liaison", helping to organise gatherings at MacDill Air Force Base, which is the home of US Central Command.

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