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NATO Announces Nuclear Drills as Nobel Goes to Atomic Weapon Abolitionists

Disarmament advocate Beatrice Fihn stressed that the exercise is practice for “wiping out hundreds of thousands of civilians” with weapons that would also “flatten cities and poison survivors.”

Common Dreams, Jessica Corbett, Oct 11, 2024

The NATO military block announced Friday that its annual nuclear exercise is set to begin next week—news that arrived just as Japanese atomic bomb survivors who advocate for disarmament received the Nobel Peace Prize.

“There is bad timing, there is dropping a brick… and then there is this. Nice work,” the Geneva Nuclear Disarmament Initiative said in response to NATO Spokesperson Farah Dakhlallah on social media.

Dakhlallah shared a NATO statement explaining that “Steadfast Noon,” the two-week military drills scheduled to start Monday, will include 2,000 soldiers from eight air bases and more than 60 “nuclear-capable jets, bombers, fighter escorts, refueling aircraft, and planes capable of reconnaissance and electronic warfare” flying over western Europe……………………………………………

Beatrice Fihn, director of Lex International and a senior fellow at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, stressed on social media Friday that NATO exercise is practice for “wiping out hundreds of thousands of civilians” with weapons that would also “flatten cities and poison survivors.”…………………………………………………………….. more https://www.commondreams.org/news/nato-nuclear-exercises?fbclid=IwY2xjawF72b9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHbdEtEt3u1G3K6vFGqSUwlo0GYYZISJscIk8fgwESepw2hUlLNbiSvjdcg_aem_mtsxSBbbl4fVS7RmjAzK_w

October 17, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | EUROPE, weapons and war