US Keeps 50 Nuclear Weapons On Turkish Air Base, Now They're Erdogans Hostages

[skews13]

The chaos resulting from Donald Trump's seemingly out-of-the-blue decision to withdraw U.S. troops from their positions in Kurdish-held Syria, greenlighting an all-out Turkish invasion, continues to grow. Trump's move was so precipitous that U.S. forces in the region were caught completely unaware. That includes U.S. nuclear forces.

As reported by The New York Times: "[O]ver the weekend, State and Energy Department officials were quietly reviewing plans for evacuating roughly 50 tactical nuclear weapons that the United States had long stored, under American control, at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey."

U.S. military keeps 50 nuclear weapons on Turkish airbase, and now they're 'Erdogan's hostages'

Thats 50 thermonuclear devices boys and girls. Sure hope cadet bonespurs has someone thats not him who actually has a plan.

 

[theHawk]

The chaos resulting from Donald Trump's seemingly out-of-the-blue decision to withdraw U.S. troops from their positions in Kurdish-held Syria, greenlighting an all-out Turkish invasion, continues to grow. Trump's move was so precipitous that U.S. forces in the region were caught completely unaware. That includes U.S. nuclear forces.

As reported by The New York Times: "[O]ver the weekend, State and Energy Department officials were quietly reviewing plans for evacuating roughly 50 tactical nuclear weapons that the United States had long stored, under American control, at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey."

U.S. military keeps 50 nuclear weapons on Turkish airbase, and now they're 'Erdogan's hostages'

Thats 50 thermonuclear devices boys and girls. Sure hope cadet bonespurs has someone thats not him who actually has a plan.

LOL. Fake News Skews.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Its the daily kos. You can't take this seriously.

 

[theHawk]

The chaos resulting from Donald Trump's seemingly out-of-the-blue decision to withdraw U.S. troops from their positions in Kurdish-held Syria, greenlighting an all-out Turkish invasion, continues to grow. Trump's move was so precipitous that U.S. forces in the region were caught completely unaware. That includes U.S. nuclear forces.

As reported by The New York Times: "[O]ver the weekend, State and Energy Department officials were quietly reviewing plans for evacuating roughly 50 tactical nuclear weapons that the United States had long stored, under American control, at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey."

U.S. military keeps 50 nuclear weapons on Turkish airbase, and now they're 'Erdogan's hostages'

Thats 50 thermonuclear devices boys and girls. Sure hope cadet bonespurs has someone thats not him who actually has a plan.

Let those barbaric Muslims try to take our nukes. They’ll get Trump-stamped so fast, they’ll find themselves booted out of NATO, and at war with the US, the Kurds, Syria, and probably Russia.

 

[ekrem]

If the Turkish leadership decides it needs a nuclear weapons program as a hedge against the end of the U.S. extended deterrence shield, its scientific/engineering capabilities, greater than Iran’s, could probably produce nuclear weapons and airplanes capable of delivering them on its side of the ocean within two to three years.
Turkish Disconnections - The American Interest

Garfinkle was a speechwriter for both of President George W. Bush's Secretaries of State, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice
Adam Garfinkle - Wikipedia

 

[Rambunctious]

Even if this was accurate the means to utilize and detonate those weapons are not in Turkeys ability to do so...dummies are everywhere in libtardville.....

 

[Ricky LIbtardo]

The chaos resulting from Donald Trump's seemingly out-of-the-blue decision to withdraw U.S. troops from their positions in Kurdish-held Syria, greenlighting an all-out Turkish invasion, continues to grow. Trump's move was so precipitous that U.S. forces in the region were caught completely unaware. That includes U.S. nuclear forces.

As reported by The New York Times: "[O]ver the weekend, State and Energy Department officials were quietly reviewing plans for evacuating roughly 50 tactical nuclear weapons that the United States had long stored, under American control, at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey."

U.S. military keeps 50 nuclear weapons on Turkish airbase, and now they're 'Erdogan's hostages'

Thats 50 thermonuclear devices boys and girls. Sure hope cadet bonespurs has someone thats not him who actually has a plan.

They are gravity bombs and Turkey doesn't have the balls to fuck with us over them. We don't need them there and we can just go get them or render them unarmed. No one will ever use a gravity nuke when we have ICBM.

Just more bullshit from the New York Slimes.

 

[toomuchtime_]

The chaos resulting from Donald Trump's seemingly out-of-the-blue decision to withdraw U.S. troops from their positions in Kurdish-held Syria, greenlighting an all-out Turkish invasion, continues to grow. Trump's move was so precipitous that U.S. forces in the region were caught completely unaware. That includes U.S. nuclear forces.

As reported by The New York Times: "[O]ver the weekend, State and Energy Department officials were quietly reviewing plans for evacuating roughly 50 tactical nuclear weapons that the United States had long stored, under American control, at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey."

U.S. military keeps 50 nuclear weapons on Turkish airbase, and now they're 'Erdogan's hostages'

Thats 50 thermonuclear devices boys and girls. Sure hope cadet bonespurs has someone thats not him who actually has a plan.

The US has nuclear weapons in Germany, Belgium, italy Turkey and Netherlands under a NATO weapons sharing plan, but now you're saying you don't trust NATO.

 

[Lesh]

The chaos resulting from Donald Trump's seemingly out-of-the-blue decision to withdraw U.S. troops from their positions in Kurdish-held Syria, greenlighting an all-out Turkish invasion, continues to grow. Trump's move was so precipitous that U.S. forces in the region were caught completely unaware. That includes U.S. nuclear forces.

As reported by The New York Times: "[O]ver the weekend, State and Energy Department officials were quietly reviewing plans for evacuating roughly 50 tactical nuclear weapons that the United States had long stored, under American control, at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey."

U.S. military keeps 50 nuclear weapons on Turkish airbase, and now they're 'Erdogan's hostages'

Thats 50 thermonuclear devices boys and girls. Sure hope cadet bonespurs has someone thats not him who actually has a plan.

LOL. Fake News Skews.

You dumb fuk.

That's VERY real

 

[Weatherman2020]

The chaos resulting from Donald Trump's seemingly out-of-the-blue decision to withdraw U.S. troops from their positions in Kurdish-held Syria, greenlighting an all-out Turkish invasion, continues to grow. Trump's move was so precipitous that U.S. forces in the region were caught completely unaware. That includes U.S. nuclear forces.

As reported by The New York Times: "[O]ver the weekend, State and Energy Department officials were quietly reviewing plans for evacuating roughly 50 tactical nuclear weapons that the United States had long stored, under American control, at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey."

U.S. military keeps 50 nuclear weapons on Turkish airbase, and now they're 'Erdogan's hostages'

Thats 50 thermonuclear devices boys and girls. Sure hope cadet bonespurs has someone thats not him who actually has a plan.

Set a timer on them.

 

[Lesh]

The US has nuclear weapons in Germany, Belgium, italy Turkey and Netherlands under a NATO weapons sharing plan, but now you're saying you don't trust NATO.

TURKEY dumbass

Not Britain...not Belgium

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

So...in July someone was sounding the alarm....but, of course, no one listened...

US Nuclear Weapons Deployment in Turkey


"The American nuclear weapons that remain on Turkish soil – an anachronistic reference to the Cold War – are tactical only. They nevertheless raise questions, not only because of the deterioration in relations between Washington and Ankara, but because of security and safety risks at the Turkish base where the weapons are stored – close to the Syrian border."

The American nuclear weapons currently stored in Europe and Turkey are B61 bombs. Their explosive yield can be adjusted between 0.3 and 340 kilotons, so they can be used both tactically and strategically. However, according to NATO’s current deterrent strategy, they are intended only for tactical use. In contrast to past years, when some American nuclear weapons in Europe were installed as warheads on ballistic missiles, the B61 bombs are intended to be carried only by aircraft.

But the location of the Incirlik base is troubling. It is located in southern Turkey, near Adana on the Mediterranean coast, only 110 kilometers from the Syrian border. The internal situation in Syria, which is still unstable, could worsen the security and safety risks of storing the bombs there. Consider, for example, what happened during the unsuccessful coup in Turkey in July 2016. Senior Turkish military officers at Incirlik were arrested, and Ankara cut off power to the base for almost a week.


In the words of Harvey Sapolsky, professor emeritus at MIT, “The US must quickly reconsider storing nuclear weapons in Turkey and giving Ankara a shared finger on the nuclear trigger under the NATO nuclear sharing program.”

 

[toomuchtime_]

The US has nuclear weapons in Germany, Belgium, italy Turkey and Netherlands under a NATO weapons sharing plan, but now you're saying you don't trust NATO.

TURKEY dumbass

Not Britain...not Belgium

Don't get your panties in a bunch. The US has nuclear weapons in some non nuclear NATO member states, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Turkey and the Netherlands, and has had them there since 2009. So now you're saying Obama made a mistake back in 2009?

 

[eagle1462010]

We are being held hostage by Turkey...............

 

[Bo Didleysquat]

Not to put this on Don, but hey, really now, america is THE great greatest threat to world peace and the planet's greatest purveyor of arms and violence.

 

[toomuchtime_]

So...in July someone was sounding the alarm....but, of course, no one listened...

US Nuclear Weapons Deployment in Turkey


"The American nuclear weapons that remain on Turkish soil – an anachronistic reference to the Cold War – are tactical only. They nevertheless raise questions, not only because of the deterioration in relations between Washington and Ankara, but because of security and safety risks at the Turkish base where the weapons are stored – close to the Syrian border."

The American nuclear weapons currently stored in Europe and Turkey are B61 bombs. Their explosive yield can be adjusted between 0.3 and 340 kilotons, so they can be used both tactically and strategically. However, according to NATO’s current deterrent strategy, they are intended only for tactical use. In contrast to past years, when some American nuclear weapons in Europe were installed as warheads on ballistic missiles, the B61 bombs are intended to be carried only by aircraft.

But the location of the Incirlik base is troubling. It is located in southern Turkey, near Adana on the Mediterranean coast, only 110 kilometers from the Syrian border. The internal situation in Syria, which is still unstable, could worsen the security and safety risks of storing the bombs there. Consider, for example, what happened during the unsuccessful coup in Turkey in July 2016. Senior Turkish military officers at Incirlik were arrested, and Ankara cut off power to the base for almost a week.


In the words of Harvey Sapolsky, professor emeritus at MIT, “The US must quickly reconsider storing nuclear weapons in Turkey and giving Ankara a shared finger on the nuclear trigger under the NATO nuclear sharing program.”

The current program dates back only to 2009 so it is not part of the Cold War. The weapons are safeguarded by "permissive action links" that prevent them from being armed or detonated without US authorization. The weapons are, of course, guarded by US military personnel.

 

[Lesh]

The US has nuclear weapons in Germany, Belgium, italy Turkey and Netherlands under a NATO weapons sharing plan, but now you're saying you don't trust NATO.

TURKEY dumbass

Not Britain...not Belgium

Don't get your panties in a bunch. The US has nuclear weapons in some non nuclear NATO member states, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Turkey and the Netherlands, and has had them there since 2009. So now you're saying Obama made a mistake back in 2009?

Are any of those nations invading neighbors?

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

So...in July someone was sounding the alarm....but, of course, no one listened...

US Nuclear Weapons Deployment in Turkey


"The American nuclear weapons that remain on Turkish soil – an anachronistic reference to the Cold War – are tactical only. They nevertheless raise questions, not only because of the deterioration in relations between Washington and Ankara, but because of security and safety risks at the Turkish base where the weapons are stored – close to the Syrian border."

The American nuclear weapons currently stored in Europe and Turkey are B61 bombs. Their explosive yield can be adjusted between 0.3 and 340 kilotons, so they can be used both tactically and strategically. However, according to NATO’s current deterrent strategy, they are intended only for tactical use. In contrast to past years, when some American nuclear weapons in Europe were installed as warheads on ballistic missiles, the B61 bombs are intended to be carried only by aircraft.

But the location of the Incirlik base is troubling. It is located in southern Turkey, near Adana on the Mediterranean coast, only 110 kilometers from the Syrian border. The internal situation in Syria, which is still unstable, could worsen the security and safety risks of storing the bombs there. Consider, for example, what happened during the unsuccessful coup in Turkey in July 2016. Senior Turkish military officers at Incirlik were arrested, and Ankara cut off power to the base for almost a week.


In the words of Harvey Sapolsky, professor emeritus at MIT, “The US must quickly reconsider storing nuclear weapons in Turkey and giving Ankara a shared finger on the nuclear trigger under the NATO nuclear sharing program.”

The current program dates back only to 2009 so it is not part of the Cold War. The weapons are safeguarded by "permissive action links" that prevent them from being armed or detonated without US authorization. The weapons are, of course, guarded by US military personnel.

Yes..surrounded by how many millions of Turks? I get that it is, unlikely, that the Turks would go for them..but how about the Kurds..that's a lot of power..in some minds--the ones that don't know that we would pop a nuke..to keep those bombs safe.

 

[Lesh]

Not to put this on Don, but hey, really now, america is THE great greatest threat to world peace and the planet's greatest purveyor of arms and violence.

And you are from where?

Russia? Iran? Turkey?

 

[toomuchtime_]

The US has nuclear weapons in Germany, Belgium, italy Turkey and Netherlands under a NATO weapons sharing plan, but now you're saying you don't trust NATO.

TURKEY dumbass

Not Britain...not Belgium

Don't get your panties in a bunch. The US has nuclear weapons in some non nuclear NATO member states, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Turkey and the Netherlands, and has had them there since 2009. So now you're saying Obama made a mistake back in 2009?

Are any of those nations invading neighbors?

What does that have to do with NATO or US nuclear weapons?