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Leaks detail deployment of tactical nukes
Associated Press
Published: 30.11.10, 18:13
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1. Wrong info about the US B-61 weapon with NATO
Dr. L. Brnd ,   San Diego, USA   (11.30.10)
The B-61 is a "tactical" nuclear weapon only in that it can be carried by "tactical" aircraft. With a variable yield from 100 kilotons to 1/2 megaton it is hardly "tactical", since these are larger than the warheads carried by US ICBMs and Trident submarine missiles. The Mod. 3 and Mod. 4 weapons now used with NATO forces do not date from the 1950's, but were built or upgraded after 1980. Someone didn't do much fact checking. However, with the fall of the USSR, there is no logical reason to keep these weapons with NATO forces, as the WikiLeaks article noted - tactical US aircraft can not even reach Russia from where the weapons are based.
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