US to Pull Tactical Nukes Out of Europe?
 

U.S. May Pull Tactical Nukes Out of Europe: Report

TOKYO - The United States is in talks with NATO to remove U.S. tactical nuclear weapons from Europe in a push toward a nuclear-weapons-free world and to cut costs, a Japanese newspaper said July 15.

Washington is talking with other NATO member nations about the withdrawal of all shorter-range, tactical nuclear weapons that have been deployed in Europe since the Cold War era, the influential Asahi Shimbun said.

In-depth discussions will take place in coming months, and the talks should conclude by the time Chicago hosts a NATO summit next May, the liberal daily said, citing a senior U.S. official tasked with nuclear disarmament policies.

The talks are being held as part of NATO's Defense and Deterrence Posture Review, said the report filed from the paper's Washington bureau.

The move came as U.S. President Barack Obama wants to negotiate with Russia about reducing tactical nuclear weapons and nuclear stockpiles, following the ratification this year of the US-Russia New START disarmament treaty, it said.

If a complete abolition in Europe is agreed, it could give impetus to U.S.-Russia nuclear disarmament talks, the mass-circulation newspaper said........

A Japanese newspaper eh? Are we sure this is not an extract from a certain book which starts with USA and Russia removing all its nukes whilst the Japanese secretly build their own. Seem to remember that it ends will an airliner being flown into a certain government building in D.C. and something about a forced global economic crash and the rise of India as a strategic military force.

Tom Clancy has a lot to answer for...

Never going to happen. You can't uninvent something. All you can do is come up with something to render it useless. MAD doesn't count.

Cameron et al are doing their best to ensure the UK's weapons are useless.