During his Dec. 7 discussion with human rights experts in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin referred to “large amounts of nuclear weapons” stationed in Europe by the U.S. He made the point that Russia does not have any nuclear weapons deployed outside of its own territory, while the U.S. does. (http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/70046 )
According to the most recent available information published by Hans Kristensen, the director of the Federation of American Scientists’ Nuclear Information Project, the U.S. has an estimated 100 B61 nuclear gravity bombs located at the Kleine Brogel air base in Belgium, the Buchel air base in Germany, Aviano and Ghedi air bases in Italy, Volkel air base in the Netherlands and at Incirlik air base in Turkey. In addition, there are nuclear storage vaults at the Ramstein air base in Germany and RAF Lakenheath in the U.K., although no bombs are thought to be stored at those locations. The vaults at Lakenheath were recently added to the list of nuclear modernization projects and modernization projects are underway at four of the other six bases.
