Iran will enrich uranium up to 60% if it wants to, Khamenei warns amid discontent over IAEA deal

[Mircea]

Is there any reason to believe all that than believe your faux pas on the US military or Air force not carrying nuclear weapons unless they are going to use them.

I said no such thing.

What I said was the US Army has never transported a nuclear warhead by ship and neither has the US Air Force.

Nuclear weapons are aboard ships, only if the ship has a nuclear weapons mission. US missile submarines have SLBMs with warheads mounted, because they have a specific nuclear weapons mission, namely, they function as part of air-land-sea triad to deter nuclear war.

Certain other ships, namely the battleships Iowa and Missouri, and certain classes of cruisers also had nuclear weapons, because they had a specific nuclear weapons mission, to wit: to launch Tomahawk cruise missiles with nuclear warheads in support of the air-land-sea triad.

Certain other classes of destroyers and fast frigates also had nuclear depth charges, nuclear torpedoes or both, because they had a specific nuclear weapons mission, namely to destroy threat-force nuclear missile submarines.

All US nuclear weapons deployed outside of the US in Britain, France (until France withdrew from NATO), Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Greece, or Turkey were flown by US Air Force cargo aircraft to the host-nation, then transported by helicopter to their final destination.

None of those countries have ever permitted the US to transport nuclear warheads by vehicle.

Hopefully, you are no longer confused.