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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So what does it need to shoot one of these off.
Destroy the assets. Withdraw from this Islamic state.
An aircraft and a critical component.
I believe they are dropped from planes.
Thank you for posting this article which IMHO is The Most Important news story at this time.
BUMP
Are you saying they are not activated right now? That a detonator of some sort needs to be included?
Oh not to worry, the State Department spokesman couldn’t it enough yesterday, how Turkey was a great ally of America. /sarcasm
Can that be done safely?
It can be done with conventional explosives and no nuclear reaction. Any radiation residue is their problem. We can’t allow these weapons to fall into Moslem hands like they are mere drones or 5.56mm ammo.
10 times more powerful? Little Boy was 15 kilotons. Hydrogen bombs are measured in megaton’s. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Although Islamic savages may not be able to arm and detonate these variable yield hydrogen bombs, they can use the fissible material for dirty bombs that can be delivered by land, air or sea.
That would then give ISIS / growing Levant Caliphate the ultimate leverage against western countries, ie:
“Pull your forces out of Afghanistan, Iraq, etc, or we’ll set off another dirty bomb in one of your precious western financially significant cities.”
Terrifying game changer.
And Obama and Soros want this, as they short western civilization.
RE: “So what does it need to shoot one of these off.”
Unless a base is is diplomatic grounds, it is not sovereign US territory and is owned by the host country.
By treaty we are allowed to be based there and fly operations, but we do not “own” the base.
Heck, our bases in the UK are not owned by the US, and the bases have a UK flag flying on base and has a senior ranking Brit as the “commander” (though he cannot order US troops or missions). He is there as part of presence to demonstrate UK ownership.
Yes. Right now they are Shiney dumb bombs. Not very good ones at that.
No.
I was based in Incirlik in 1980 as a nuclear weapons specialist.
Enter the code for the permissive action link incorrectly a few consecutive times and the device is rendered non functional. It would take a complete reassembly.
The B61-3 has a dial-a-yield ranging from .3 to 170 kt, while the ...
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The B61 nuclear bomb is one of the primary thermonuclear weapons in the U.S. Enduring Stockpile following the end of the Cold War. It is an intermediate-yield strategic and tactical nuclear weapon featuring a two-stage radiation implosion design. The B61 is a variable yield bomb (0.3 to 340 kiloton yield in various versions .... Accuracy has not been a guarantee for air-dropped nuclear weapons
In exchange for the release of the hostages the Iran’s demanded the return of the Shah.
In exchange for the release of the hostages the Turk’s demanded the return of Gulen.
It will be convenient...print media can just to word substitution and rehash their archive articles.
This is the first intent to deceive and create an incident where there is none.
Those weapons are protected by US personnel, exclusively.
The BASE is protect by the Turkish government.
IF those weapons were in imminent danger we would already be at Defcon One.
Wouldn't that still create a rather large explosion? Especially 30 of them going off either at once or in succession. Along with of course the bombs being dropped on them from the air.
I agree we can not allow them to stay there. In fact if we had a real President he would have ordered their immediate removal the moment they turned off the power and then refused to turn it back on.
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