Turkey’s Syria move highlights America’s tactical nukes in Europe
There are still 150 or so of the things
GERMANY OWNS no nuclear weapons. It renounced the very idea when it reunified in 1990. But if war were to break out in Europe today, German pilots could clamber into German planes, take off from Büchel Air Base in Rhineland-Palatinate and drop nuclear bombs on Russian troops.
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Europe November 28th 2019
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