US deploys around 70 Nuclear bombs in Turkey
http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=72221&cid=22&fromval=1&frid=21&seccatid=55&s1=1
The United States of America deploys around 70 B61 nuclear bombs in Turkey to use them in case of necessary.
According to a Turkish news agency citing well informed sources, all of the bombs are deployed in the Turkish Incirlik air base in Adana, south of the country.
The greater part of these bombs is the property of the US army, and Washington reserves the right to use them in case of need, Haberturk news agency disclosed.
Until 1995 from 10 to 20 B61 bombs were deployed in two other air bases in Turkey, but later all of them were transferred to the Incirlik Air Base, it said.
According to the report, Turkey was given the US nuclear weapons in line with Washington’s interests in the region which allowed the US army to transfer them to another place in case of the outbreak of dangerous conflicts in the region.
However, the problem is the means of transport for the bombs, because the Turkish side, despite repeated requests by the US, still opposes deployment of aircraft in Incirlik which are capable of transferring nuclear bombs.
Analysts believe that Turkey is itself capable of transferring the B61 nuclear bombs by using F16 planes.
B61 nuclear bombs are considered as one of the main strategic weapons of the US. B61 is 3.58 long and it weighs 320 kilograms.
http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_10_22/There-are-nearly-70-American-nuclear-bombs-in-Turkey/
There are nearly 70 American B61 nuclear bombs in Turkey. All of them are deployed on the Turkish Incirlik Air Base, Adana.
Despite the factual presence of the US air bombs, the possibilities of using them are limited, the Haberturk Agency reported.
The greater part of these bombs is the property of the U.S. army, and Washington reserves the right to use them in case of need. Until 1995 from 10 to 20 B61 bombs were deployed on the two other air bases in the country but later all of them were transferred to the Incirlik Air Base.
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even 1 would be a worry..but 70??
how many times can you destroy something?
these wont flatten a city but they will cause untold damage..
401
WOW
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now THERES a good idea!!!!! lol
mmmm…turkey…..yanksgiving…? lol
“They” say some may be on Australian soil?
australia was ACTIVELY PERSUING NUKES IN THE 50′S then the yanks built pine gap and the oz gov stiopped its program immediately. …wonder why….?
google it.
I think it was Gough Whitlam I believe who tried to stop Pine Gap. Gough was a communist. As red as it gets. His legacy lives on in Labor today with the dance with China. All those who dance with China are communists. All of those who dance with China would sell us out to the PLA tomorrow if the PLA lands. A mix of Christianity and democracy…and Chinese pagan philosophy will not work. Its a rejection of Jesus Christ. If Ms Gillard wants us closer to Asia she wants us invaded. China wants us as their NEW SOUTH CHINA and plans for South Pacific conquest. Prophecies tell us this. I cant stand Australias slimeing up to Asia.
http://www.serendipity.li/cia/cia_oz/cia_oz3.htm
Clyde Cameron: We were never told that Pine Gap was a CIA installation and it wasn’t until Gough Whitlam publicly declared that Richard Stallings was a CIA operative and that he had been in charge of the Pine Gap installation that we knew that Pine Gap was a CIA installation and I believe that at the very beginning Gough Withlam and the Minister for Defence were led to believe that it was a pretty harmless sort of operation. But you’ve got to remember that just about the time the dismissal took place, the Australian government had to make a decision as to whether it would renew the leases of these American installations on Australian soil and there is every reason to believe that the Americans were fearful that the leases wouldn’t be renewed. That would be a good enough reason, in their view, for moving in to destabilise the government and to bring about its overthrow to say nothing of any threat that our policies may have for their Australian investments in the multinational area.
Tony Douglas: Whitlam’s exposure of Stallings also revealed another interesting fact and that was that Stallings was staying at National Party Leader Dough Anthony’s flat in Canberra. From November 2 to November 6, 1975, Whitlam repeated these charges and demanded a list of all CIA agents in Australia. The CIA in turn demanded that ASIO report to them on what Whitlam was up to. A cable from a senior CIA official and Task Force 157 member, Ted Shackley, on November 10 accused Whitlam of being a security risk and asked ASIO to do something about it. The Head of the Defence Department, Arthur Thang, described him as “the greatest risk to our nation’s security that there has ever been.” Meanwhile Whitlam said he would detail the operations of Pine Gap in Parliament on the afternoon of November 11. It wasn’t until years later that details about the Pine Gap base and American fears that its top secret role would be disclosed were linked to the downfall of the Whitlam government. That link came to light when Chris Boyce, a cipher clerk at TRW — a California-based aerospace corporation, was charged with espionage in 1977. Boyce was working in the black vault where information from Australia was directed to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Kelly Johnson of the Christopher Boyce Alliance takes up the story.
Kelly Johnson: The information was mostly coming from Pine Gap, Nurrungar and Canberra, from the CIA stations there. It’s difficult to know actually what the content was, it’s obviously very secret what the content was, but it came into the communications relay room where Boyce worked. He then sent the information on to CIA headquarters in Langley and sent certain information back to Australia.
Wonderful description of a time now gone. Thanks Seek. That was very informative.
no worries..i see it very differently now..