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To: CodeToad

My understanding is that the nuclear weapon stockpile on base was pulled out some years ago. Is that true?


13 posted on 07/19/2016 9:00:30 AM PDT by jonascord (The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you donÂ’t know youÂ’re in the Dunning-Kruger club)
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To: jonascord
"My understanding is that the nuclear weapon stockpile on base was pulled out some years ago. Is that true?"

Apparently not, according to a 7/16/2016 story:

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 bombs—more 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.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-h-bombs-in-turkey
51 posted on 07/19/2016 9:33:58 AM PDT by PreciousLiberty (Trump '16! Make America Greater Than Ever!)
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To: jonascord

Many have been saying and asking if that is true but nobody answers.

Are the bombs still there? Does anyone know? My guess is YES, they are still there as a result of a foolsih legacy of trust and illusion of power by the US.


59 posted on 07/19/2016 9:40:12 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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