In a report detailing NATO's deterrence policy, a Canadian senator for the Defence and Security Committee of the alliance's Parliamentary Assembly accidentally revealed several sites the US uses to store its weapons of mass destruction in Europe. The list includes bases in Turkey, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Belgium.
Belgium's green and socialist parties, Groen and the sp.a, have urged the country's authorities to discuss the removal of the US nuclear warheads, disclosed as being stored at the Kleine-Brogel Air Base just 90 kilometres from Brussels. The parties' representatives pledged to raise the issue during a defence parliamentary committee on 17 July although a defence ministry spokesperson has said that “we cannot and should not speak about” the warheads, stored in Belgium, as The Brussels Times report.
Green MP Samuel Cogolati noted that the accidental revelations only confirmed the “open secret” that the EU's ally from across the pond stations its weapons of mass destruction in Belgium and insisted on meaningful debates.
“We demand a fully transparent debate – we must stop this lying and put an end to this hypocrisy”, he stated.
In an interview with the local broadcaster, Radio 1, fellow party member Wouter De Vriendt suggested that the risks are even higher under the current administration.
“Do we really want weapons of mass destruction in our territory with someone like Donald Trump at the buttons?” he claimed as cited by The…
