On Sun, 3 May 2009 19:52:13 -0700 (PDT), BlackBeard
wrote:

On May 3, 6:08*pm, wrote:
On Sun, 3 May 2009 11:48:59 -0700 (PDT), BlackBeard
wrote:

On May 3, 6:15*am, wrote:
On Sat, 2 May 2009 22:29:25 -0700 (PDT), "Ken S. Tucker

AFAIK, CVN's (and USN surface fleet) is not nuclear
offensive, so the navalized F-35 doesn't need nukes,
and no "allie" wants or needs them.

You don't know anything of the sort because it's policy not to discuss
whether it is or is not.

By presidential order (Bush the 1st) all tactical nuclear weapons were
removed from USN surface ships and Submarines. *Ordered in 1991
finished by 1992.

Would this not mean that by presidential order they could be put back?

Sure, and by Presidential order he could require the military to wear
pink tutu's. But AFAIK from recent visits to operational units they
haven't changed anything in regard to the aforementioned topic.

The point is that they were taken off by executive order and can be
returned by executive order (a/k/a The Stroke of a Pen). Such orders
need not be made public. Under such conditions claims that we KNOW
the weapons status of any given vessel are incorrect. All we KNOW is
that there is an unrescinded, public executive order removing the
weapons.