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"Don't nuke at me!" - Argentina
Topic Started: Feb 10 2012, 06:13 PM (145 Views)
George K
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Argentina accuses UK of deploying nuclear weapons near Falkland Islands

Argentina has accused Britain of deploying nuclear weapons near the Falkland Islands and "militarising" the south Atlantic.

The Argentinian foreign minister, Héctor Timerman, lodged a formal protest at the United Nations on Friday and showed slides of British military bases in the region, saying they represented a threat to all south America.

He said Buenos Aires had intelligence that a Vanguard submarine was operating in the area. "Thus far the UK refuses to say whether it is true or not," he told a press conference in New York. "Are there nuclear weapons or are there not? The information Argentina has is that there are these nuclear weapons." Quoting John Lennon, he added: "Give peace a chance."

Britain's ambassador to the UN, Mark Lyall Grant, said London did not comment on the disposition of nuclear weapons or submarines but that it was "manifestly absurd" to say it was militarising the region. Britain's defence posture remained unchanged, he said.

The Daily Mail reported this week that Britain had deployed a Trafalgar-class nuclear-powered submarine armed only with conventional weapons.

Timerman said such a nuclear-armed submarine would violate the Treaty of Tlatelolco for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean.

After receiving Timerman's protest the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, issued a statement expressing "concern" about the escalating row and reportedly offered to mediate.

Argentina's president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, said Britain's dispatch of a modern destroyer, HMS Dauntless, to replace an older vessel, as well as Prince William, in his role as a search and rescue helicopter pilot, were provocations and presented a "grave risk for international security". Britain said the deployments were routine.

Argentina claims Britain stole the islands, situated 300 miles off the coast of Patagonia, in 1833. Argentina calls the archipelago Las Malvinas.

On Thursday, David Cameron reiterated British sovereignty, saying: "As long as the people of the Falkland Islands want to maintain that status, we will make sure they do and we will defend the Falkland Islands properly to make sure that's the case."

Tensions between the two countries have surged in the run-up to the 30th anniversary of the Falklands war.

Relations thawed in the 1990s but cooled again in 2010 when British firms started drilling for oil, triggering a diplomatic and commercial squeeze by Argentina's president. She recently convinced much of Latin America to ban ships flying the Falkland Islands flag from their ports.

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Mikhailoh
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Ridiculous. Deploying nukes over the Falklands? Please.
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John D'Oh
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It's not like it's going to take nuclear weapons to defeat the Argentines, in the unlikely event that they try it on again. The only really effective offensive thing they have at this point is their personality.
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Actually, with all the UK military cutbacks I suspect a determined move by Argentina ..... yes, I know that might seem like an oxymoron, .... but, bear with me here ..... can anyone really imagine a Thatcher-like determination in the UK to reclaim the islands in the event of some future assault that puts a few thousand Argentine soldiers in and around Stanley? What aircraft carrier would they send. Oh, the one that's now a part of a million washing machines? Can you imagine British troop ships sailing without air cover?
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JBryan
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They will probably just borrow one of ours.
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John D'Oh
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Feb 11 2012, 06:20 AM
Actually, with all the UK military cutbacks I suspect a determined move by Argentina ..... yes, I know that might seem like an oxymoron, .... but, bear with me here ..... can anyone really imagine a Thatcher-like determination in the UK to reclaim the islands in the event of some future assault that puts a few thousand Argentine soldiers in and around Stanley? What aircraft carrier would they send. Oh, the one that's now a part of a million washing machines? Can you imagine British troop ships sailing without air cover?
Cuts to the UK armed forces are nothing compared to what's happened in Argentina. They have nothing.
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Jolly
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All this talk about the Brits, and I betchya dollars-to-donuts there's a nuclear-armed American sub sniffing around down there, somewhere...
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