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Article: PRESS: Poland hosted Soviet nuclear weapons during Cold War.
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- Poland Business News
- Article date:
- January 26, 2007
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PRESS: Poland hosted Soviet nuclear weapons during Cold War
WARSAW. JANUARY 26. INTERFAX CENTRAL EUROPE - Poland played host to 178 Soviet nuclear missiles to launch at Western Europe in case of war, daily Dziennik wrote Friday, citing hitherto-unknown documents.
"I knew all along what was in the papers," General Florian Siwicki, the chief of staff over 1973-1983 and defense minister in 1983-1990, is quoted as saying in the daily.
The nuclear strike operation was known under the codenamed "Wisla," or Vistula and was only known to 12 top military officials in Poland.
The Warsaw Pact war plan envisaged nuclear strikes at selected targets ...