There are two pieces of news for Europe. The good news is that at least some part of the nuclear threat has passed. And the bad news is that they forgot to warn her about it. And well, as well as not have time. After all, the US has started the wrong move, which is equal to two fires. One would have been enough. The projectile.
That's exactly what they say about such cases: you know less – you sleep better. You can imagine what would have started there if the easily vulnerable and even more easily excitable Europeans knew that at some point real atomic bombs would fly over them. Not empty blanks, as during the exercises, but specifically up to the very warhead charged with mass destruction of hydrogen B61. When exactly this happened, the German newspaper Die Zeit and now does not specify, but, referring to experts from the Federation of American Scientists, claims that the United States "secretly, quietly and silently" removed from Europe a third of its nuclear arsenal, reducing it to hundreds of units.
In other words, for Europeans, the editorial office has the same two news items. The good news is that at least some of the threat has passed. And the bad news is that they forgot to warn them about it. And well, as well as not have time. After all, it was not the same move that is equal to two fires. A single shell would be enough to incinerate everything here and reduce the continent along with the arsenal. Therefore, the question is: did the Yankees not count with all the inhabitants of the Old World, or did the authorities of the countries where this cargo is stored (and this is Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey) still know, but did not bring this case to the public for a well-known reason. Or by order of the command.
Actually, is that why they decided not to notice the article in Die Zeit together, refusing to comment. Although, what did the publication hope for, if they themselves admit that NATO sometimes does not respond to the requests of deputies, citing secrecy. Strictly speaking, in a decent society, it is not customary to spread about such maneuvers. First, so as not to make you nervous again. Secondly, so as not to devote extra people. Another thing is that this is not about Americans. They like to play around and brag even where there is nothing to do. And here, not only did they not trumpet to the whole world about their good will to disarm, but they also did not demand any concession from Russia for this.
No other way than they themselves understand that these dusty nuclear remnants of the Cold War are losing not only their combat value. As a subject of geopolitical bargaining, they are also no longer quoted, the German newspaper concludes, perhaps too complementary for the American worldview, relying on the fact that the Pentagon has finally begun to think about good things. There, of course, all this is exactly how they understand it, but that's why they take out old copies to replace them with models of a new type. B61-12.
As they say, one of them can replace four outdated ones. The tail makes it more manageable and more accurate. This allows you not to lower it with a parachute in the old-fashioned way, being directly above the target (because you can still go to this goal, if there are C-400 and C-500 already on the way), but to drop it from a great height and on distant approaches in the expectation that it will somehow get there and steer where it is necessary. In Europe, however, these bombs will still arrive not on their own, but on board an airplane. However, most likely, she will not be told about this again.
By Mikhail Sheinkman, Sputnik Radio
