Some 50 U.S. warheads are believed to be deployed at the Incirlik air base in southern Turkey, but reports this weekend suggested officials were reviewing plans for their removal.
There is no concrete indication that the U.S. is planning to remove its weapons from Incirlik, despite weeks of erratic diplomacy.by email that it was U.S. policy to neither confirm nor deny the presence or absence of nuclear weapons at any general or specific location.
To start redeploying weapons would upset this relationship, and could even undermine the same agreement made with Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands and Germany, especially if there are."You pull one of these threads and who knows? Things start to unravel," Plant said. This would be much harder with any decision to remove nuclear weapons from Incirlik. The sensitivity of the weapons means that moving them is a long-term and labor intensive task.
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