{"id":25144,"date":"2017-09-03T15:47:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T20:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25144"},"modified":"2017-09-03T15:47:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T20:47:25","slug":"the-risk-of-natos-h-bombs-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25144","title":{"rendered":"The Risk of NATO\u2019s H-Bombs in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2017\/09\/03\/the-risk-of-natos-h-bombs-in-turkey\/\">The Risk of NATO\u2019s H-Bombs in Turkey<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong> As the world nervously assesses North Korea\u2019s claims about having a hydrogen bomb, another danger point is in Turkey where an erratic leader could seize NATO\u2019s H-Bombs, warns Jonathan Marshall.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Even in this contentious era, one proposition still enjoys near-universal support: the United States should make it the highest priority to prevent nuclear weapons from falling into the hands of hostile states.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20276\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a class=\"image-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/erdogan-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20276\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/erdogan-3-300x197.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/erdogan-3-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/erdogan-3-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/erdogan-3-160x105.jpg 160w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/erdogan-3.jpg 837w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses citizens in front of his residence in Istanbul on July 19, 2016. (Photo from official website of the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s far too late to stop North Korea from getting the Bomb, despite all the <a href=\"mailto:https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2017\/08\/22\/the-new-trump-war-president\/\">militant rhetoric<\/a> coming out of Washington. But we still have a chance to prevent an erratic Middle East strongman from holding the United States hostage by threatening to seize dozens of deadly hydrogen bombs.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m referring, of course, to Turkish President Recep Erdogan.<\/p>\n<p>As I <a href=\"mailto:https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2016\/07\/20\/turkeys-nukes-a-sum-of-all-fears\/\">warned<\/a> more than a year ago, he controls overall access to NATO\u2019s largest nuclear storage facility \u2014 a stockpile of some 50 B-61 hydrogen bombs at Incirlik air base in southeastern Turkey. Each weapon has a yield of up to 170 kilotons, nearly 12 times greater than the atomic bomb that wiped out Hiroshima in 1945.<\/p>\n<p>The bombs are a holdover from the Cold War, with no current strategic rationale. They represent a growing risk to U.S. security, not a safe deterrent.<\/p>\n<p>As Erdogan\u2019s relations with the United States and Western Europe go from bad to worse, the case for withdrawing those weapons of mass destruction from his reach grows ever more urgent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Risk of NATO\u2019s H-Bombs in Turkey Exclusive: As the world nervously assesses North Korea\u2019s claims about having a hydrogen bomb, another danger point is in Turkey where an erratic leader could seize NATO\u2019s H-Bombs, warns Jonathan Marshall. Even in this contentious era, one proposition still enjoys near-universal support: the United States should make it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7430,553,2006,9213,1908,818,827],"class_list":["post-25144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-jonathan-marshall","tag-nato","tag-north-korea","tag-nuclear-bombs","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-turkey","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25145,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25144\/revisions\/25145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}