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Job i guess was to be ready if the soviet army would come across the hill right it was about nuclear battle in europe just how. we explain to our troops again and again that germany was the enemies target. if a war were to break out germany would be annihilated. so the better prepared we were to defend ourselves the greater the chance that we never have to use those weapons as saddam and the pool that s called deterrence and it worked. any soldier can understand that concept. and that s how we explained it to them you know if. that s the biggest member is in. until the one nine hundred ninety s. there were one hundred twenty similar storage sites throughout germany the artillery shells were intended to stop soviet tanks forces. the shells had
Secret of your job i guess was to be ready if the soviet army would come across the hill right it was about nuclear battle in europe just how. we explain to our troops again and again that germany was the enemy s target that if a war were to break out germany would be annihilated. so the better prepared we were to defend ourselves the greater the chance that we never have to use those weapons on the saddam in the pool that s called deterrence and it worked. any soldier can understand that concept. and that s how we explained it to the you know if. that s the biggest and then there is in. until the one nine hundred ninety s. there were one hundred twenty similar storage sites throughout germany and the artillery shells were intended to stop soviet tank forces. the shells had
The saddam and the pool that s called deterrence and it worked. any soldier can understand that concept. and that s how we explained it to them if you know if. that s the biggest and then there is even though i got up. until the one nine hundred ninety s. there were one hundred twenty similar storage sites throughout germany and the artillery shells were intended to stop soviet tank forces. the shells had a range of twenty to thirty kilometers so they would have been fired only on german soil this footage shows one such a small nuclear explosion. there were nuclear anti-aircraft missiles and even nuclear mines. there were all sorts of crazy weapons during the cold war period if you look back at that today you d think