[[File:B61 in Weapons Storage and Security System.jpg|thumb|Weapons Storage and Security System vault holding a [[B61 nuclear bomb]]. The vault is within a [[Protective Aircraft Shelter]].]]
[[File:703MUNSS061108.jpg|thumb|General [[Roger A. Brady|Roger Brady]] being shown a dummy nuclear weapon in a Weapons Storage and Security System at [[Volkel Air Base]]]]
'''Weapons Storage and Security System (WS3)''' is a system including electronic controls and vaults built into the floors of [[Protective Aircraft SheltersShelter]]s (PAS) on several [[United States]] and [[NATO]] [[military airfield]]s all over the world. These vaults are used for safe special weapons storage, typically of tactical [[B61 nuclear bomb]]s. Historically the system was in NATO also called the '''Weapon Security and Survivability System (WS3)'''<ref name=Nuclear-Matters>{{citation |url=http://www.acq.osd.mil/ncbdp/nm/nmbook/appendices/ap_C.htm |title=Nuclear Matters: A Practical Guide - Appendix C |author=Office of the Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Matters |date=2008 edition |publisher=Department of Defense |accessdate=2009-05-23 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20090116010239/http://www.acq.osd.mil/ncbdp/nm/nmbook/appendices/ap_C.htm |archivedate=2009-01-16}}</ref><ref name=chronology>{{citation |url=http://www.acq.osd.mil/ncbdp/nm/nuclearchronology5.html |title=Nuclear Chronology |author=Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, Nuclear Matters |publisher=Department of Defense |accessdate=2008-06-11 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20090109191343/http://www.acq.osd.mil/ncbdp/nm/nuclearchronology5.html |archivedate=2009-01-09}}</ref> or '''Weapons Survivability and Security System'''.<ref>{{citation|url=http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/written_answers/1988/jun/07/weapons-storage-and-security|title=Weapons Storage and Security|publisher=Hansard|date=7 June 1988|id=HC Deb vol 134 c547W|accessdate=2009-08-07}}</ref>
==History==
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*{{Citation | title=U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Europe | url=http://www.nrdc.org/nuclear/euro/euro.pdf | author=Hans M. Kristensen | date=February 2005 | publisher=[[Natural Resources Defense Council]] | accessdate=2006-05-23}}
*[http://www.motherearth.org/nuke/info3.php Nuclear Information: US nuclear weapons in Europe], [[Friends of the Earth]], Flanders & Brussels
*[http://www.hamburger-illustrierte.de/content/htm/tic/2005/09/19/ws300000.jpg Image of a WS3 vault holding U.S. B-61 nuclear bomb]
*[http://nuclear-weapons.info/images/001-HAS-storage-vault-lift.png Image of a WS3 vault holding British WE.177 nuclear bombs]
