Turkey’s Syria move highlights America’s tactical nukes in Europe
There are still 150 or so of the things
GERMANY OWNS no nuclear weapons. It renounced the very idea when it reunified in 1990. But if war were to break out in Europe today, German pilots could clamber into German planes, take off from Büchel Air Base in Rhineland-Palatinate and drop nuclear bombs on Russian troops.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Over here”
Europe November 30th 2019
- Turkey’s Syria move highlights America’s tactical nukes in Europe
- Turkey deports Islamic State fighters
- The murder of a journalist in 2017 still haunts Malta’s government
- The new European Commission is approved
- Big demonstrations in Paris over the murder of women
- Hazelnut-planting bothers the Italians
- Post-Merkel syndrome
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Why Russia is trying to seize a vital Ukrainian coal mine
Without it, the country’s remaining steel industry will be crippled
The search for Ukraine’s missing soldiers and sailors
The families of missing loved ones are trying to find them, alive or dead
Europe could become Trump’s geopolitical roadkill
A second dose of MAGA will put the EU in a pickle
Russia continues to advance in eastern Ukraine
But it is encountering growing problems
Turkey’s long hard struggle with inflation
High interest rates are starting to do the trick
Delays on Italy’s spruced-up trains have got worse
Matteo Salvini is making feeble excuses