Posted on 07/20/2016 11:00:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
All according to Obama’s plan
Interesting article.
This article states these are “dial-a-yield” bombs:
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-h-bombs-in-turkey
“According to Hans M. Kristensen, the director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, underground vaults at Incirlik hold about fifty B-61 hydrogen bombsmore than twenty-five per cent of the nuclear weapons in the nato stockpile. The nuclear yield of the B-61 can be adjusted to suit a particular mission. The bomb that destroyed Hiroshima had an explosive force equivalent to about fifteen kilotons of TNT. In comparison, the dial-a-yield of the B-61 bombs at Incirlik can be adjusted from 0.3 kilotons to as many as a hundred and seventy kilotons.”
They don’t have the critical component installed and they don’t have the arming computer installed on the aircraft. Even if they had all three (bomb, component computer) they would still require the correct launch codes to arm it.
I’ve yet to find a definitive answer to the question are there US nukes at Incirlik?
Many posters have repeated over different threads that the nukes were removed years ago yet the recent articles state that are around 50 or so variable yield bombs on the base.
So, are these articles hype or is it true that we do have nukes cashed there?
Terrifying game changer.
or well set off many CLEAN bombs in lots of your precious Eastern religiously significant cities.
CHECKMATE game changer.
“IF those weapons were in imminent danger we would already be at Defcon One. “
Under an Obama command?
Oh?
Hook a 30 yo Walleye to guide them in.
Besides; how damn 'accurate' does a nuke need to be??
If those weapons are in imminent danger of capture, they are already rigged with emergency destruction devices (15 pound shaped charges) and can be destroyed at a moments notice.
Or at least that’s the way these situations were handled back in my day.
Didn’t know that. Dial a yield, pretty cool stuff. Wish I had one, you know, to defend the back 40.
even with the enemy in the white house?
Modern thermonuclear weapons are in the 100kt range and most are dial-a-yield.
Above a certain level, it is more efficient to use multiple smaller warheads than one big one.
There are still some 60’s megaton warheads still out there but most have been disassembled.
Yeah but they arrested those in charge, so different Turks are now in control, and they are nothing like those they replaced.
Furthermore, I honestly doubt Ash Carter would ever go to Defcon One, even if it were warranted. But do you think they would go directly there or would there be a more gradual escalation?
not hostage....... qurantined for it’s own protection
under a normal admin, this would justify the use of a B2 wreath to take out the ordinance. Might lose troops in the collateral, but better than letting them get in the wrong hands or allowing the entire situation to be used as blackmail.
In exchange for the release of the hostages the Turks demanded the return of Gulen. And then Trump was elected.
I agree, and we would all rather be diverted with speech-gate!
Who was it who said, “Close only counts with horseshoes, hand grenades and H-bombs.”?
How can we be sure they either do not know the codes, or have the knowledge to dismantle and reassemble?
If Russia were to bomb the vaults holding the B61 weapons would it result in nuclear detonation of those weapons?
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