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Europe’s role in USA’s pre-emptive B61 nuclear strike program

Proponents of ‘first strike’ nuclear war against Iran rob billions from their own citizens, RT.com, Michel Chossudovsky  10 April 13

“…….Pre-emptive Nuclear Warfare  While reports tend to depict the tactical B61 bombs as a relic of the Cold war, the mini nukes are the preferred weapons system for pre-emptive nuclear war. Were an attack directed against Iran to be launched involving the deployment of B61 bunker buster nuclear bombs, these five countries,  [Italy, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands  with Turkey and Italy in the forefront, would play a major strategic role. While these “undeclared nuclear states” casually accuse Tehran of developing nuclear weapons, without documentary evidence, they themselves have capabilities of delivering nuclear warheads, which are targeted at Iran.  To say that this is a clear case of“double standards” by the IAEA and the “international community” is a understatement.

US and NATO military documents attest to the fact that the B61 is the weapon of choice of pre-emptive nuclear war as opposed to the larger thermo-nuclear bombs of the Cold War era. Moreover, were military action to be launched against Iran, these five countries ]would play a key role in the delivery of  B61 bunker buster bombs with nuclear warheads.

The US had originally supplied some 480 B61 thermonuclear bombs to these five “non-nuclear states”, as well as to the United Kingdom, which is categorized as a Nuclear Weapons State (NWS)  Moreover, were military action to be launched against Iran, these five countries would play a key role in the delivery of  B61 bunker buster bombs with nuclear warheads. 

Casually disregarded by the Vienna based UN Nuclear Watchdog (IAEA), the US has actively contributed to the proliferation of nuclear weapons in Western Europe and Turkey. While, some of these bombs were decommissioned as a result of political pressures, particularly in Belgium and Germany, the US –in liaison with NATO– has launched a multi-billion dollar modernisation program of its tactical nuclear weapons arsenal.

According to the National Resources Defense Council (August 2007), the number of B61 nuclear bombs in Europe has been reduced from 480 to 350, following the removal of 130 bombs from the Ramstein airbase in Germany……http://rt.com/op-edge/nuclear-war-iran-nato-629/

April 11, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | EUROPE, weapons and war