Global Security Newswire - NATO to Call For Retention of Nuclear Deterrent. PrintShareEmailTwitterFacebookLinkedIn NATO's new strategic concept, to be issued at this week's summit in Portugal, is set to support fielding a ground-based antimissile system in Europe but also call keeping the alliance's nuclear weapons in place for the time being, the Washington Post reported (see GSN, Nov. 8).
The military alliance has not issued a new mission statement in more than 10 years. This document would support U.S. President Obama's call for a "world without nuclear weapons" while emphasizing that NATO would maintain its strategic capability while others also have nuclear arms. Leaders from the 28 NATO nations are set to convene in Portugal tomorrow and Friday to discuss their ideas for preparing the organization to respond to modern-day security challenges.
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen is still trying to reach full agreement on how nuclear matters would be addressed in the mission statement. U.S. There are believed to be roughly 200 U.S. Persee.fr - Politique étrangère, Année 1991, Volume 56, Numéro. U.S. Nuclear Weapons Withdrawn From the United Kingdom » FAS Str. . By Hans M.
Kristensen The United States has withdrawn nuclear weapons from the RAF Lakenheath air base 70 miles northeast of London, marking the end to more than 50 years of U.S. nuclear weapons deployment to the United Kingdom since the first nuclear bombs first arrived in September 1954. The withdrawal, which has not been officially announced but confirmed by several sources, follows the withdrawal of nuclear weapons from Ramstein Air Base in Germany in 2005 and Greece in 2001. The removal of nuclear weapons from three bases in two NATO countries in less than a decade undercuts the argument for continuing deployment in other European countries. Status of European Deployment I have previously described that President Bill Clinton in November 2000 authorized the Pentagon to deploy 110 nuclear bombs at Lakenheath, part of a total of 480 nuclear bombs authorized for Europe at the time.
Last week I reported that security deficiencies found by the U.S. Some Implications . Joint Statement by President Obama and President Medvedev.