Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
August 2016 - United States Special Weapons News
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- Bucharest Denies Reports That U.S. Is Moving Nukes From Turkey To Romania RFE/RL 18 Aug 2016 -- The Romanian Foreign Ministry has rejected media reports that the United States was moving nuclear weapons from a base in Turkey to one in Romania.
- Pentagon Mute on Reports of US Nuclear Weapons Move From Turkey to Romania Sputnik 18 Aug 2016 -- The Pentagon could not provide any information concerning media reports that Washington was going to relocate nukes from Turkey's Incirlik airbase to Romania.
- US Transfers Nukes From Turkey to Romania Amid Rising Tensions Sputnik 18 Aug 2016 -- The United States has started to move nuclear arms deployed in Turkey to Romania amid rising tensions in relations between Washington and Ankara, media reported on Thursday, citing sources.
- 'US nuclear weapons in Turkey at risk of seizure by hostile forces' Press TV 15 Aug 2016 -- A large number of American nuclear weapons stored at Turkey's Incirlik Air Base are at risk of being seized by "terrorists or other hostile forces," according to a Washington think tank.
- 1967 solar storm nearly took US to brink of war American Geophysical Union 09 Aug 2016 -- A solar storm that jammed radar and radio communications at the height of the Cold War could have led to a disastrous military conflict if not for the U.S. Air Force's budding efforts to monitor the sun's activity, a new study finds.
- How Safe Are US Nuclear Weapons in Turkey? VOA 05 Aug 2016 -- U.S. B61 nuclear bombs are equipped with "permissive action links" or PALs, which prevent arming and using the weapon without an authorization code. They are kept on special racks, inside secure underground vaults, inside protected aircraft shelters, inside a heavily guarded area, surrounded by two layers of fencing, lighting, cameras and intrusion detection devices, on protected airbases.
- Pentagon Points Advanced B61-12 Tactical Nukes 'Deep Underground' Sputnik 03 Aug 2016 -- Once the United States upgrades its decades-old B61 tactical nuclear bomb to its 12th modification, the improved weapon will receive advanced capabilities that will allow it to do something it has never done before – penetrate well-fortified command and control centers located deep underground, the newspaper Vzglyad reported.
- US B61-12 Program to Lower Threshold for Nuclear Weapons Use - Russia Sputnik 03 Aug 2016 -- The United States' B61-12 nuclear warhead life extension program will lower the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Department for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control said Wednesday.
- NNSA Reaches Important Milestone with B61-12 Life Extension Program National Nuclear Security Administration 01 Aug 2016 -- The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) announced that they recently formally authorized the production engineering phase of its B61-12 warhead life extension program (LEP).
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