2009 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:25:10 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL, REUSE: Lychen II complex, former East Germany
 
Cool market for Cold War relic

David Crossland
The National (Abu Dhabi)
August 25, 2009



FÜRSTENBERG, GERMANY - For sale: one former Soviet nuclear warheads depot, complete with bunkers, 24,000 square metres of derelict buildings and a former shooting range, all in the middle of a scenic German pine forest.

The state of Brandenburg is inviting bids for the 97-hectare site north of Berlin, one of four central storage facilities for atomic weapons in East Germany that would have devastated West Germany if the Cold War nightmare had happened.

The warheads, a potential selling point, have been removed. The Soviets whisked them away in the dead of night sometime after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The site was handed over to the German government in 1992.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090826/FOREIGN/708259934/1002

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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