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To: Rummyfan

What is even worse, is that at Incirlik Air Base(home of the 39th Air Base Wing) there are 60-90 B-61 gravity bombs each with a nominal yield of 300-340 kilotons. Right now, the weapons are stored within a vault in Hardened Aircraft Shelters, using the USAF WS3 Weapon Storage and Security System.Fifty of these bombs are reportedly assigned for delivery by U.S. pilots, and forty are assigned for delivery by the Turkish Air Force. However, no permanent nuclear-capable U.S. fighter wing is based at Incirlik, and the Turkish Air Force is reportedly not certified for NATO nuclear missions, meaning nuclear-capable F-16s from other U.S. bases would need to be brought in if Turkey’s bombs were ever needed.This is called nuclear sharing.They do not have the PAL/cyptographic codes for the bombs.


6 posted on 06/28/2010 11:50:12 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld ( "Fortes fortuna adiuvat"-Fortune Favors the Strong)
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To: sonofstrangelove
What is even worse, is that at Incirlik Air Base(home of the 39th Air Base Wing) there are 60-90 B-61 gravity bombs each with a nominal yield of 300-340 kilotons. Right now, the weapons are stored within a vault in Hardened Aircraft Shelters, using the USAF WS3 Weapon Storage and Security System.Fifty of these bombs are reportedly assigned for delivery by U.S. pilots, and forty are assigned for delivery by the Turkish Air Force. However, no permanent nuclear-capable U.S. fighter wing is based at Incirlik, and the Turkish Air Force is reportedly not certified for NATO nuclear missions, meaning nuclear-capable F-16s from other U.S. bases would need to be brought in if Turkey’s bombs were ever needed.This is called nuclear sharing.They do not have the PAL/cyptographic codes for the bombs.

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15 posted on 06/29/2010 4:34:57 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: sonofstrangelove

Those nuclear weapons should definitely be taken off Muslim soil. Turkey cannot be trusted these days. Mark Steyn says the fundamentalist Turks out bred the secular/Westernized ones. This is why Turkey is going hard core Muslim slowly but surely. Steyn is blaming demographics


16 posted on 06/29/2010 4:42:06 AM PDT by dennisw (History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid - Gen Eisenhower)
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