Finland moves to allow hosting of nuclear weapons in dangerous shift

Finland moves to allow hosting of nuclear weapons in dangerous shift

Finland is moving to lift its long-standing legal ban on hosting nuclear weapons within Finnish territory. On NATO’s sensitive frontier with Russia, this is a step in the wrong direction.The U.S. should be the first country to object to this reckless shift.On March 5, Helsinki published draft amendments to the Nuclear Energy Act and the Criminal Code that would allow nuclear weapons to be brought into or based on Finnish soil, despite widespread…