Doubts about Security: German Politicians Want U$ Nukes out of Europe .But worlds people want an end to ALL nukes now !

Some German Politicians Want U$ Nukes out of Europe.
The opposition in Germany wants nuclear weapons out of the country following areport which says that some of those weapons may not be properly safeguarded.

 Atomic Weapons -- No!
A poster protesting nuclear weapons.Following the release
of confidential information from a US Air Force report claiming that US nuclear
weapons in Europe are not properly taken care of, German politicians from across
the political spectrum are calling for the weapons' removal.
SPIEGEL ONLINE  News reports: 

"Atomic weapons in Germany are relics of the Cold War and need to go," Guido
Westerwelle, head of the pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP), told the
Berliner Zeitung. This is just "one more reason to remove all of the tactical
atomic weapons stored in Germany," Westerwelle added.

DOUBTS ABOUT
SECURITY 

The information, included in an article published Thursday on the Web site of
the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), states that most nuclear weapons
sites in Europe fail to meet US Department of Defense security standards and
that several of the sites required "significant additional resources."

 According
to the FAS article, which drew from a partially declassified version of a
February 2008 report obtained by the FAS, the report reads, "inconsistencies in
personnel, facilities, and equipment provided to the security mission by the
host nation were evident as the team traveled from site to site.... Examples of
areas noted in need of repair at several of the sites include support buildings,
fencing, lighting and security systems."

The report came from an Air Force investigation that was launched after an
August 2007 fiasco, when the US military lost track of six nuclear warheads
being transported across the United States for 36 hours.

Although the number and location of nuclear weapons in Europe is not public
knowledge, FAS estimates put their number at between 200 and 350 weapons stored
in underground vaults at bases in Belgium, Holland, Italy, Turkey, the United
Kingdom and at Büchel Air Base in southwestern Germany.

The Air Force report also recommended reducing the number of bases storing
nuclear weapons so as to limit their vulnerabilities, according to the FAS.
Westerwelle was joined in his calls for the weapons to be removed from Germany
by other members of Germany's opposition. Former Environment Minister Jürgen
Tritten, now deputy floor leader for the Green Party, told the Berliner Zeitung
that Chancellor Angela Merkel must denounce all German involvement with nuclear
weapons, as having them located in Germany presupposes the military's active
participation in a nuclear war waged by NATO.

 Gregor Gysi, co-leader of Germany's Left Party, also told the paper: "If the
federal government had some spine, it would immediately call on the US to remove
all nuclear weapons -- and preferably by destroying them."

Members of the Social Democrats (SPD), the junior member in Germany's governing
coalition, are treating the details of the report much more gingerly. SPD
foreign policy expert Niels Annen told the Berliner Zeitung that removing
nuclear weapons from Germany and Europe would be a huge step forward in terms of
nuclear disarmament.

Eckart von Klaeden, however, the foreign policy spokesman of Chancellor Angela
Merkel's Christian Democrats, told the paper that the strategy of nuclear
deterrence must be preserved. Although he agreed that high security standards
are of supreme importance, he added that "we cannot relinquish them as long as
there are nuclear weapons in the world. They protect us."

main source:

 http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,561392,00.html

Comment:
It is natural for Germans to feel worried about getting sucked into crazy yank wars (especialy against Russia)

Two other nations have nuclear weapons in the EU ,Britain and France ,all these "club members" are very  much involved in preventing any possibility of Iran getting nuclear weapons for its own defence and protection against the monoploly powers ,"all options on the table" planned oil wars .

But especialy worry about Iranians developing  their own nuclear protection against wars fought on behalf of Israeli paranoia.

None of these nuclear "club member" powers are really interested in giving up their own monoploies for nuclear blackmail.