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The Cuban Missile Crisis precipitated a withdrawal of U.S. nuclear ballistic missiles from Turkey, but the U.S. kept its nuclear gravity bombs at Incirlik Air Base, which remain there today.[1] I don't think storing nuclear bombs in Israel would have been considered a substantial change in posture considering that Turkey, unlike Israel, actually bordered the Soviet Union.

[1] See, e.g., https://cissm.umd.edu/sites/default/files/2019-07/Nuclear_Ba... page 36, "Turkey has, without interruption, hosted American nuclear weapons since 1959"




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