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The Hostage Air Base – and Its Hydrogen Bombs
American Thinker ^ | July 20, 2016 | Stephen D. Bryen and Shoshana Bryen

Posted on 07/20/2016 11:00:58 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Mariner
IF those weapons were in imminent danger we would already be at Defcon One.

The base was protected by the Turkish Government. That may no longer be the case.

We will not hear anything until after an incident (and maybe not even then). There apparently has not been one yet.

41 posted on 07/20/2016 11:38:12 AM PDT by flamberge (What next?)
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To: Mariner
IF those weapons were in imminent danger we would already be at Defcon One.

If Barksdale scrambles the BUFF's I'll let you know

42 posted on 07/20/2016 11:38:21 AM PDT by Despot of the Delta (It's time for Trump to become Vlad the Impaler. I want Progressive/Globalist/Establishment heads)
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To: Kaslin

I would assume stealing hydrogen bombs is an act of war.


43 posted on 07/20/2016 11:38:45 AM PDT by odawg
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To: Kaslin

Any innovative scenarios where these could be used in a pre-planned nuclear world war 3?


44 posted on 07/20/2016 11:39:17 AM PDT by Democrats hate too much
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To: Kaslin

The decision to leave these weapons in Incirlik and the minimal security could well be a means for Obama to provide an option to help Erdogan’s grand caliphate plans and sow more chaos in the Middle East while providing Obama with plausible deniability.


45 posted on 07/20/2016 11:39:17 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Kaslin
It's way past the time for the US to get our troops, gear and nukes out of Turkey.

Turkey under Erdogan is well on it's way to becoming the next Iran - maybe worse.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan; President of Turkey:

“The minarets are our bayonets, the domes our helmets, the mosques our barracks and the faithful our army.”

"Islam is Islam. Democracy is the train we ride to our ultimate victory."


46 posted on 07/20/2016 11:39:18 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: jimjohn

It would be harder than you think. Bombs are stored in under ground vaults in the floors of hardened aircraft shelters.


47 posted on 07/20/2016 11:40:15 AM PDT by PJammers (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Elsie

well consider Nagasaki. The bomb was dropped so that it did not hit ground 0.

That means that some folks in the extended error range were killed while some folks within the intended range survived. If you are in the missed area you are good. If you are in the incorrect hit area you are dead

So, at this point accuracy does make a difference (to some)


48 posted on 07/20/2016 11:40:43 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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To: pleasenotcalifornia

No.


49 posted on 07/20/2016 11:41:10 AM PDT by PJammers (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Elsie
Besides; how damn 'accurate' does a nuke need to be??

Minute of Nation State?

50 posted on 07/20/2016 11:41:17 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Warning: This post has little to do with reality, and nothing to do with polite society.)
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To: Elsie

You are referring to response from a long gone era.

I argue based on current pathetic weak fealty to Islam, current NATO countries and the USA would willingly absorb virtually all first strike destruction without in kind or worse MAD retaliation.
Islam, Putin, China and N.Kor know this.

Never thought I’d see this day of such moral and military weakness...


51 posted on 07/20/2016 11:42:20 AM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: Kaslin

News Alert - US decided it will not extradite Gulen cleric. Situation at Incirlik just cranked up another level.


52 posted on 07/20/2016 11:43:03 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Kaslin; Squantos

They should have been gone more than 10 years ago. When Turkey wouldn’t support us on the Iraq invasion, Dubya should have pulled them out.


53 posted on 07/20/2016 11:44:18 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: odawg

“I would assume stealing hydrogen bombs is an act of war.”

Only if it’s intentional. I mean, you could have borrowed one or two for party decorations, loaded them into your station wagon, and left them in your backyard. No harm, no foul.


54 posted on 07/20/2016 11:47:23 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (I apologize for not apologizing.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
So what does it need to shoot one of these off.

approximate coordinates for mecca

55 posted on 07/20/2016 11:48:45 AM PDT by TheRightGuy (I want MY BAILOUT ... a billion or two should do!)
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To: justa-hairyape

Was wondering about how Obola was going to respond to Turkey’s extradition demand.
Where did you see the news update?
Thanks

RE: “News Alert - US decided it will not extradite Gulen cleric. Situation at Incirlik just cranked up another level”


56 posted on 07/20/2016 11:49:46 AM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: PJammers

Perhaps Putin wouldn’t want Turkey so take outright possession of those weapons if it would be possible that Turkey could make those bombs operable.

Right now Russia has superiority over Turkey in good part because it is a nuclear power. A nuclear armed Turkey negates that.


57 posted on 07/20/2016 11:52:01 AM PDT by pleasenotcalifornia
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To: MarchonDC09122009
DEFCONWarningSystem‏ @DEFCONWS

The #US announced it will not #extradite #FethullahGulen, adding to the tension and putting #US Personnel at #Incirlik AFB at more risk

58 posted on 07/20/2016 11:53:51 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: JohnnyP

“..underground vaults at Incirlik hold about fifty B-61 hydrogen bombs—more than twenty-five per cent of the nuclear weapons in the nato stockpile...”

I guess obama and our national security guys were too busy playing Pokemon Go and this whole Turkey thing caught them by surprise. It would have been nice if someone might have said “Hey guys - Turkey doesn’t seem the most stable place to store half our stuff right now. Maybe we should move some of them?”


59 posted on 07/20/2016 12:04:36 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: Rebelbase

Physical locations of WMD are classified. That is why we found none in Iraq lol.


60 posted on 07/20/2016 12:05:07 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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