FOX News: Turkey holding 50 US nuclear bombs 'hostage' at air base, report says
Officials are reviewing plans to evacuate up to 50 U.S. nuclear bombs that have long been stored at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey in the wake of Ankara's military offensive in northern Syria, according to a report.
The weapons are now essentially "hostage" to Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a senior official told The New York Times on Monday.
The Cold War-era B61 nuclear bombs are said to be 100-250 miles from the Syrian border, according to The Guardian. A former U.S. official told the outlet that Turkish diplomats responded to suggestions about moving the bombs by saying Turkey would start to develop its own.
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Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- October 15, 2019
U.S.-Turkey Tensions Raise Fears Over Future of Nuclear Weapons Near Syria -- Newsweek
Why Are U.S. Nuclear Bombs Still in Turkey? -- Ankit Panda, The New Republic
US nuclear bombs at Turkish airbase complicate rift over Syria invasion -- Julian Borger and Jennifer Rankin, The Guardian
Turkey's Erdogan says alternatives to F-35 jets ready, receiving offers -- Reuter
Russian and Syrian troops fill void as US pulls troops out of Syria -- Military Times
Turkish invasion sparks NATO crisis but eviction is unlikely -- ABC News/AP
Air Force F-35 squadrons improve readiness capability amid deployments -- UPI
Behold USS America Sailing With A Whopping 13 F-35Bs Embarked Aboard -- Warzone/The Drive
Best Ever? Meet the Navy's 3 Powerful Stealth Seawolf Submarines -- National Interest
U.S. Army to deploy hypersonic missiles by 2023 -- UPI
How far will the Army’s precision strike missile fly?How far will the Army’s precision strike missile fly? -- Defense News
Northrop Grumman unveils 50mm chain gun for Army’s Next Generation Combat Vehicle -- Defence-Blog
Army Futures Command is leading a cultural shift, much to the delight of industry -- Defense News
Men and Women Seeing Different Failure Rates on Army's Gender-Neutral Fitness Test -- Military.com
The Army says it has picked who will build the Patriot radar replacement, but it isn’t saying who the winner is -- Business Insider
U.S. Army doesn't want any more Iron Dome systems -- Jerusalem Post
US Army Signals Israel’s Iron Dome Isn’t The Answer -- Breaking Defense
Weapons Makers Unveil A Herd of Robotanks— As the Army Worries about Battlefield Bandwidth -- Defense One
Army eyes commercial megaconstellations to support its future battlefield network -- Space News
The US military is trying to read minds -- MIT Technology Review
U.S. concerned about some Hong Kong protest tactics, heavier China hand -Pentagon -- National Post/Reuters
US generals warn about underestimating military might of China and Russia -- Washington Examiner
US Navy Base Reports Damage to More Than 20 Structures Days After Typhoon Pummels Japan -- Military Times/Stars and Stripes
New UK-France military force tested off Scotland -- BBC
Xi Jinping to open Military World Games in China as PLA goes on charm offensive -- SCMP
China’s Z-20 Black Hawk lookalike and flying saucer concept craft star at helicopter expo -- SCMP
South Korea’s future fighter program at risk, even as development moves along -- Defense News
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2 comments:
Why snatch US nukes & upset the religious fundamentalists in Washington when they could buy some from Pakistan? Maybe they could use either former PMs David Cameron or the middle east peace envoy Tony Blair as a facilitator?
There are some open source reports in 2016 of US nukes being moved from Turkey to Romania & other reports denying that this was the case. Who knows?
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