Thursday, August 18, 2016
Should We Keep Nuclear Weapons in Turkey?
On Room for Debate, I read an interesting article about whether the U.S. should keep up its military base in Turkey that stores nuclear weapons. On one side, people argue that the weapons there are a strong deterrent to the use of nuclear weapons by other countries, and the security is high enough that they should be safe despite turmoil in Turkey. They are also said to be there to honor a commitment to NATO. Others say that they are unnecessary and not secure enough. However, these people say that nuclear bases should be moved to a more secure area in order to continue acting as a deterrent and as a sign of a commitment to NATO. I think that a large majority of the weapons there should be dismantled, leaving only the few that would be necessary for deterrence. The world has too many nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction for its own good. I also think that nuclear stores should be moved to more secure locations in NATO than Turkey. What do you think is the best course of action here?
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I think keeping the weapons in Turkey is the best course of action. Since they're already there, why move them? They're only there for intimidation to the rogue middle eastern countries in avoidance of them not using nuclear weapons. On the other hand, I am not well versed in this subject and some more info could change my opinion. Does anyone else have any ideas?
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