Comments on: United States Removes Nuclear Weapons From German Base, Documents Indicate http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2007/07/united_states_removes_nuclear.php Comments and analyses of important national and international security issues Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:37:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: RICHARD MARINO http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2007/07/united_states_removes_nuclear.php/comment-page-1#comment-8719 RICHARD MARINO Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:33:22 +0000 http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2007/07/united_states_removes_nuclear_.php#comment-8719 KEEPING NUCLEAR BOMBS IN TURKEY PAST 2010 WILL PROVE TO BE A COSTLY MISTAKE FOR THE WEST (AND ISRAEL), ONCE IRAN, PAKISTAN AND TURKEY FORM AN ISLAMIC NUCLEAR TRIAD...WHY MORE PEOPLE IN THE U.S. STATE DEPT. DON'T SEE OR UNDERSTAND THIS IS BEYOND ME. <b>Reply: </b>They probably don't see or understand the point because it doesn't make sense. The nuclear weapons deployed in Turkey are US weapons under the control of US personnel, not Turkey. And a nuclear alliance between Iran and Pakistan seems unlikely given that Pakistan, despite its problems, does not appear likely to collapse anytime soon, and that Iran and Pakistan have their own disagreements. HK KEEPING NUCLEAR BOMBS IN TURKEY PAST 2010 WILL PROVE TO BE A COSTLY MISTAKE FOR THE WEST (AND ISRAEL), ONCE IRAN, PAKISTAN AND TURKEY FORM AN ISLAMIC NUCLEAR TRIAD…WHY MORE PEOPLE IN THE U.S. STATE DEPT. DON’T SEE OR UNDERSTAND THIS IS BEYOND ME.

Reply: They probably don’t see or understand the point because it doesn’t make sense. The nuclear weapons deployed in Turkey are US weapons under the control of US personnel, not Turkey. And a nuclear alliance between Iran and Pakistan seems unlikely given that Pakistan, despite its problems, does not appear likely to collapse anytime soon, and that Iran and Pakistan have their own disagreements. HK

]]> By: Joerg http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2007/07/united_states_removes_nuclear.php/comment-page-1#comment-201 Joerg Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:05:15 +0000 http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2007/07/united_states_removes_nuclear_.php#comment-201 Joerg: Thanks for this outstanding investigation. Your work was cited all over the news in Germany. I have also <a href="http://atlanticreview.org/archives/747-Nuclear-Weapons.html" rel="nofollow">blogged about it</a> in the <i>Atlantic Review</i>, which I edit with another German Fulbright Alumnus. I take your concern about nuclear burden sharing seriously, but I also believe that NATO needs to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in our defense planning, if we want to convince Iran and other countries to give up their assumed nuclear weapons programs. Thus the removal of some US nukes from Germany is a good step. Joerg: Thanks for this outstanding investigation. Your work was cited all over the news in Germany. I have also blogged about it in the Atlantic Review, which I edit with another German Fulbright Alumnus.

I take your concern about nuclear burden sharing seriously, but I also believe that NATO needs to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in our defense planning, if we want to convince Iran and other countries to give up their assumed nuclear weapons programs. Thus the removal of some US nukes from Germany is a good step.

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