Nato Debates What To Do With 200 Old American Nuclear Weapons And Other Nuclear Stockpiles

"A frontal view of four B-61 nuclear free-fall bombs on a bomb cart. (Released to Public) Location: BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, LOUISIANA (LA) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA) DoD photo by: SSGT PHIL SCHMITTEN Date Shot: 1 Dec 1986". B-61 bombs (probably trainers). Wikimedia

Outdated, Unwanted, US Nukes Hang On In Europe -- Washington Post/AP

KLEINE BROGEL AIR BASE, Belgium -- Unseen beyond the grazing Holsteins and rolling pastures of eastern Belgium, the 12-foot-long tapered metal cylinders sit in their underground vaults, waiting for the doomsday call that never came. Each packs the power of many Hiroshimas.

America's oldest nuclear weapons, unwanted, outdated, a legacy of the 20th century, are now the focus of a political struggle that could shake the NATO alliance in the 21st.

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