[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL, REUSE: Lychen II complex, former East Germany

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

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
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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