The USAF is equipped with some special vehicles called "Weapons Maintenance Trucks", these are large trucks equipped with complex technologies.
12 of these vehicles are assigned to NATO, and their peculiarity is that of the specific design to allow technicians to carry out maintenance of nuclear bombs in the bases where they are located.
The American arms expert Hans Kristensen, director of the "Nuclear Information Project" of the organization "Federation of American Scientists" based in Washington DC, studying a photo downloaded from Google map, noted the presence of the 704 vehicles and the military ° in an air base, from this he deduced that necessarily in some shelter of the military airport there must necessarily have been stockpiled nuclear bombs. Furthermore, Kristensen is aware that there are only four Munss units in US military aviation, and they are located in four bases in Europe where nuclear weapons are stored to be launched by planes of the host nation.
Satellite photography was the basis of the Italian military air force of Ghedi.
Further investigations have allowed Hans Kristensen to establish that 20 are the weapons supplied at the base and are of two types: the B61-4 with powers from 0.3 to 50 kiloton and the B61-3 with powers from 0.3 to 170 kiloton.
The most disturbing aspect of this story is that in case of need these weapons would be dropped from the Italian Tornado fighter bombers, as there are no US aircraft in the Lombard airport, as opposed to Aviano. In Ghedi, the sixth flock of fighters is framed, whose pilots are nicknamed "The Red Devils" and air campaigns have been used in Iraq in 1991, in Bosnia in 1996, in Kosovo in 1999 and more recently in Libya.
Italian pilots, together with conventional bombing missions, are also trained for a possible "nuclear strike".
Officially, this arsenal in Italy does not exist: neither the government of Washington nor that of Rome have ever admitted their presence, but the publication of Kristensen's study has revealed its existence.
Giovanni Caprara
Source: Federation of American Scientists
