Tuesday, May 03, 2005

Who's Keeping the Nuclear Weapons in Europe?: "NRDC’s Hans Kristensen, sole proprietor over at Nukestrat.com, sends this little missive about the growing public opposition in Germany to US nuclear weapons stationed there:

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Belgium and Germany are two of the NATO countries that store US nukes on their territory. They are also two of only five non-nuclear NATO countries that are assigned strike missions with US nuclear weapons in times of war(!). A bizarre arrangement in this era of non-proliferation that would not be tolerated anywhere else. Greece quietly withdrew from this scheme in 2001, and the Belgian and German revolt makes an interesting prelude to the NATO nuclear planning group meeting in Brussels next month. NATO’s long-held principle of nuclear ‘burden sharing’ seems to be unraveling."

(Via ArmsControlWonk.com.)