Posted on 07/20/2016 11:00:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
The United States runs its air operations against ISIS in Iraq from Incirlik Air Base in Turkey. The base, used by other NATO forces as well, is not American. It is Turkish, and the U.S. needs government permission to fly from there. Since the 15 July coup attempt in Ankara, U.S. forces at Incirlik are essentially hostages to the Turkish government. The Turkish base commander and his aides have been arrested; U.S. personnel are confined to base; outside power has been cut off; and while the U.S. has been permitted to resume operations over Iraq and Syria, it is working under adverse conditions, to say the least. Most worrisome, about 50 hydrogen bombs are stored by the U.S. at Incirlik, ostensibly on behalf of NATO. These bombs are "protected" by Turkish troops and to some degree their potential use is shared with the Turkish Air Force.
The deployment goes back more than 50 years, begun as an effort to counter the Soviet military buildup as an offset to quantitatively larger Soviet ground forces facing Europe. But by the mid-1980s the U.S. put more emphasis on "tactical" missiles, largely to counter the Soviet Union's deployment of SS-20's, a short to medium range missile with multiple, independently targeted warheads (MIRV) in the second and third versions of the SS-20. In 1987 the Intermediate and Short-range Missile Nuclear Treaty (INF) was signed and the Russians and the U.S. began removing their missiles. By 1991, all the missiles of concern on both sides were eliminated.
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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.
If Barksdale scrambles the BUFF's I'll let you know
I would assume stealing hydrogen bombs is an act of war.
Any innovative scenarios where these could be used in a pre-planned nuclear world war 3?
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.
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."
It would be harder than you think. Bombs are stored in under ground vaults in the floors of hardened aircraft shelters.
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)
No.
Minute of Nation State?
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...
News Alert - US decided it will not extradite Gulen cleric. Situation at Incirlik just cranked up another level.
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.
“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.
approximate coordinates for mecca
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”
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.
The #US announced it will not #extradite #FethullahGulen, adding to the tension and putting #US Personnel at #Incirlik AFB at more risk
“..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?”
Physical locations of WMD are classified. That is why we found none in Iraq lol.
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