Tuesday, 26 October 1999 21:00 (GMT)

(UPI Spotlight)

Congressman: Soviets hid nukes in US

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (UPI) - Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Penn., said Tuesday the Soviet Union may have hidden explosives, radio transmitters and possibly nuclear weapons in the United States during the Cold War for use in sabotage against U.S. power systems and other key infrastructure. Two such caches were discovered last winter in Switzerland and Belgium, both mentioned in KGB archives that also suggest U.S. sites. "I am outraged the (Clinton) administration has not even asked the question of the Russians about where the specific sites are in the United States," Weldon said.

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Answers

Ha! Some Y2K survivalist probably has stumbled on them and has a pretty nifty bunker :-)

It just gets weirder and weirder -- amazing any of us are around in one piece. Punchy tonight at how odd life has become. We've fallen in the Twilight Zone and can't get out, get out, get out, get out

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), October 27, 1999.

Didn't we just have a thread about hidden US nukes in Europe?

Strangerer and strangerer. What a world... <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), October 27, 1999.

You know if some Russian general wanted to sell Iraq a nuclear weapon all he'd have to do is tell them where to pick it up. He'd never have to 'deliver' it and no one in the Russian goverment would ever know it was gone. Just a thought...

-TECH32-

-- TECH32 (TECH32@NOMAIL.COM), October 27, 1999.

Sysman, the US nuclear weapons in Europe and other locations outside the US were not "hidden", they were just not widely advertised. The deployment of these nuclear weapons was open knowledge if one looked.

The alledged stores of Soviet weapons in the US and other countries was part of a classified, undercover operation by the Soviet Union against this and those other countries. And from reports that the Swiss found one of the caches and it exploded when they began dis- arming the protective booby-traps, the "alledged" angle of this story is skewed towards being the truth.

As far as some survivalist finding one of these caches and having the best bunker in town. We might find that a survivalist finding one of these things and it going off would be ATF's wet dream excuse for going after all survivalists or Y2Kers for fear that more would find such Soviet weapons stockpiles.

Reno's greatest fear: "Milne has the bomb!"

WW

-- Wildweasel (vtmldm@epix.net), October 27, 1999.

One can hope that their ability to manufacture lasting, quality componants, is equal to the Chinese.(see the joke?) :)

-- Gia (laureltree7@hotmail.com), October 28, 1999.