On Wednesday 28 January 2015 19:46, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno conveyed
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Post by DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUnoPost by AragornIt's even worse than that. The NSA actually have operational
facilities within Canada, just like the US Air Force has an
operational base /within/ one of the Belgian Air Force bases ─ it's
where they keep those "non-existing" nukes.
You mean the banned neutron devices which do not go boom, but go "wink
wink"?
KNow what I mean? Say no more...
Actually, no, I don't understand what you're hinting at. I do know what
a neutron bomb is, but you seem to be hinting at something different.
That which I meant to convey was that it has always been "neither denied
nor confirmed" that there were any nukes being kept on Belgian soil [*],
even though everyone knew that there were ─ ever since 1961, even ─ and
a few years ago, the Belgian then-Minister of Defense Pieter De Crem
bluntly stated on television: "Everybody knows that there are nukes
there; it's no secret."
Of course, he was right: everybody knew ─ it wasn't exactly a well-
guarded secret. It's just that _officially_ it was still supposed to be
one, because neither the USA nor the Belgian government had ever
publicly acknowledged the presence of US American nuclear weapons in
Belgium.
To the best of my knowledge, 11 of those bombs ─ they are designed for
delivery by an aircraft, so they're not missiles ─ are still here in
Belgium and at that particular base [*] today, but like I said, I don't
know what planes have been chosen for delivery in the meantime.
The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter had already been officially retired for
widespread use as an interceptor/fighter/bomber by the time I had to put
in my compulsory military service ─ which was from December 1983 until
late September 1984 ─ but at the time of my active military duty, the
jets designated to deliver the nukes were still F-104s, because they had
a greater range than the then-current North American F-16s. But so now,
more than 30 years later, I doubt that they'd still be relying on those
same F-104s.
Of course, the Cold War has ended in 1991 ─ despite Barry O's very
adamant attempts to reignite that flame ─ but like I said, those bombs
are still there. It was only a few years ago ─ in 2008, to be precise
that Pieter De Crem made that statement on national television, followed
by a very predictable and (as always) very artificial wave of
indignation in the mainstream press.
[*] It's a USAF-operated enclave within a Belgian Air Force Base under
NATO command. The Dutch version of the Wikipedia article is far
more elaborate than the English version of that page ─ it even
touches upon the subject of the nukes and De Crem's admission of
their presence ─ but I guess this one here will have to do...:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleine_Brogel_Air_Base
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