US has 480 nuclear weapons in Europe
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Brussels, Nov 29, IRNA
Belgium-Nuclear-Protest
The US has 480 nuclear weapons deployed in six European countries -- Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, Italy and Turkey.
In addition to that, the UK has 185 nuclear weapons. The USA has a total of around 7600 nuclear warheads, according to the Belgian peace group `Mother Earth'.
Peace activists from Sweden, Finland, Germany and the UK protested at the Swedish embassy in Brussels Monday against Sweden's cooperation with NATO, the group said in a press release.
The action was organized by Ofog (Swedish network for a nuclear free world), in cooperaton with Mother Earth.
The activists are demanding that Finland and Sweden halt all military involvement with the NATO nuclear alliance.
The protest also coincides with the NATO summit in Riga which is expected to give the go-ahead for Swedish and Finnish participation in the NATO Response Force's (NRF) exercises and operations.
The NATO Response Force was initiated by the US' ex-defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld and became fully operational last month.
The NATO Response Force is a rapid reaction force with 21.000 soldiers that can be deployed within 5 days.
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