The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) policy and research coordinator Alicia Sanders-Zacre reported that the US has deployed approximately 150 nuclear shells at European air bases without making official statements. She specified that the shells are deployed in the Netherlands, Turkey, Italy, Germany and Belgium, as BelTA reports.
Independent experts estimate that approximately 150 nuclear warheads are deployed in U.S. air bases in these countries, said Sanders-Zacre during a briefing with journalists of the Association of Journalists ACANU, accredited by the UN. She also expressed serious concern to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) about the deployment of this type of weapon in any European country, and also recalled the Cuban Missile Crisis and added that such actions could be a potential starting point and increase the risk of nuclear war.
According to Sanders-Zacre, European countries, which demand that the whole world be transparent about nuclear weapons, have shown clear duplicity in this situation. She stressed that it is important to pay attention to the tools available to us, and to ask questions about what the bombs are and where they are located.
ICAN is an international public organization founded in 2007. Its primary mission is to support and implement the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty. For its efforts to achieve nuclear disarmament, the organization was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017.
