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We suspected it; they were in our back garden .. no joke, literally. That was one of the reasons there was a very large and peaceful demonstration against nuclear weapons in the Netherlands in November 1981. The Dutch government was going to decide in December 1981 if long-range US nuclear...

Thanks for sharing. As you see, it wakes up old memories.

The Netherlands played an important role in the nuclear defense of Europe, something that was first not fully known publicly and then strongly protested against by the Dutch people. In the late 1950s, the idea was that if the Warsaw Pact countries came close to the "river line defense" (along...

They had a big deployment in Europe in the late 1950 to early 1970. In the Netherlands, they were mounted on International M 139 D Don't know what the D stands for. The Dutch 109 Artillery carried the Honest John, stationed in 't Harde. That area was a big exercise area for the Dutch military...