[Ken H]

I would think they’d have the ability to destroy them. Without setting them off, of course.

[SauronOfMordor]

Even with the mechanisms destroyed, that’s still a lot of weapons grade plutonium that could be used to make new bombs.

Only thing that would work would be packing them in thermite and burning the plutonium. Of course, that would make the surrounding area a radioactive wasteland worse than Chernobyl.

[SanchoP]

No one quite knows how the American contingent could manage to secretly remove the deadly nukes from their concrete vaults, bring them out to the tarmac, load them on planes and fly them out safely over Turkish objections.

The bigger question is: Are they actually there?