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wildfirepower
12-01-2010, 09:23 AM
THE USA has deployed 200 tactical nuclear weapons in Europe, mostly in Belgium, Holland, Germany and Turkey, the WikiLeaks’ files claim.

The four nations were long suspected of hosting warheads but Nato and the governments involved have refused to confirm reports. Nato yesterday condemned releasing nuclear secrets as “illegal and dangerous”.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/214778/WikiLeaks-claims-200-nukes-in-Europe

Slutter McGee
12-01-2010, 09:29 AM
The Big Question is if these "secrets' were pulled from classified documents or not. I know a majority of those documents were not classified.

Sincerely,

Slutter McGee

Zippyjuan
12-01-2010, 12:50 PM
No big secret there. We have had nukes in Europe for decades.

Article from January, 2009:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/08/AR2009010803494.html

Panel Urges Keeping U.S. Nuclear Arms In Europe

By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 9, 2009

The United States should keep tactical nuclear bombs in Europe and even consider modernizing older warheads on cruise missiles to maintain credibility with allies who depend on the U.S. weapons for security, according to a report released yesterday by a high-level task force appointed by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates.

"The presence of U.S. nuclear weapons in Europe remains a pillar of NATO unity," the report says, adding: "Some Allies have been troubled to learn that during the last decade some senior U.S. military leaders have advocated for the unilateral removal of U.S. nuclear weapons from Europe."

The panel, officially named the Secretary of Defense Task Force on Defense Department Nuclear Weapons Management and chaired by former defense secretary James R. Schlesinger, said in the report: "As long as NATO members rely on U.S. nuclear weapons for deterrence -- and as long as they maintain their own dual-capable aircraft as part of that deterrence -- no action should be taken to remove them without a thorough and deliberate process of consultation."

oyarde
12-01-2010, 02:21 PM
no news