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US moving nuclear weapons from Turkey: report

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Paweł Kononczuk 18.08.2016 14:49
The United States has started moving nuclear weapons stationed in Turkey to Romania amid deteriorating relations between Washington and Ankara, the EurActiv.com website has reported.
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The Brussels-based platform, which focuses on European news, said it had been told by a source that relations have worsened so much after July’s failed coup in Turkey that Washington no longer trusted Ankara to host such weapons.

The source said the American weapons were being moved to the Deveselu air base in Romania - where the US in May switched on a missile shield site - from Turkey’s Incirlik air base.

EurActiv.com said that according to a recent report by the Simson Center, some 50 US tactical nuclear weapons have been stationed at Incirlik, around 100 km from the Syrian border, since the Cold War.

The report, EurActiv.com noted, says that whether the US could have maintained control of the weapons in the event of a protracted civil conflict in Turkey is an unanswerable question.

Another source, who was not named, told EurActiv.com the transfer of weapons has been challenging both technically and politically.

“It’s not easy to move 20+ nukes,” EurActiv.com cited the source as saying.

The Romanian foreign ministry, however, denied that the country has become home to US nuclear weapons, EurActiv.com added.

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Source: euractiv.com

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