Italy is a country with nuclear power.

ROME - The law prohibits and on several occasions in the past he also said the government, but Italy is a country with nuclear power. This was revealed by an American study , according to which the Italian territory there are 90 U.S. atomic bombs . A presence which is spoken very little, but who has a major strategic weight in the international balances . On the subject have taken some members of the PRC , which are also promoting a collection of signatures .

Strictly law , the presence of these weapons would not be allowed : the legislation expressly prohibits since 1990. Our country has also signed international treaties on nuclear non-proliferation and said they did not join the nuclear club , with all the obligations international consequences.

According to the report "U.S. nuclear weapons in Europe" U.S. analyst Hans Kristensen of the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington , however, Italy is home to 90 of 481 U.S. nuclear bombs in the Old Continent . Fifty are in the base of Aviano , Friuli, and another 40 are in Ghedi , Brescia .

Between Italy and the United States there would be a secret agreement to defend nuclear renewed after 2001. William Arkin, an expert of the association of nuclear scientists , has recently revealed the code name " Stone Axe " ( Stone Axe ) . The atomic bombs in Italy are of three types: B 61-3 , B 61-4 and B61 -10. The first has a maximum power of 107 kilotons , ten times higher than the atomic bomb on Hiroshima ; the second model has a maximum power of 45 kilotons and the third of 80 kilotons .

The government of George Bush has reiterated many times not rule out the nuclear option to respond to attacks with biological or chemical weapons and has started the production of atomic bombs tactics of limited power, not excluding the countries considered using them against terrorists. At least two of these , Syria and Iran , are in the range bombers stationed in Italy .

The results of the study have given strength to the protests of some members of the PRC . "It ' a long time that we denounce the presence of atomic bombs on the Italian territory ," says Sen. Lidia Menapace of the Defence Committee . "When we were on a mission to Aviano for the commission asked the Italian commander if he was aware of the presence of nuclear weapons in the base and he said he did not know ." " We are collecting signatures for a popular law to free the land from the U.S. nuclear weapons ," added Senator Francesco Martone , leader of the PRC Foreign Affairs Committee .