Tag: Büchel

  • Time for nuclear sharing to end

    It is a little known fact: Germany (and four other European countries) host nuclear weapons as part of NATO “nuclear sharing”. This means that in a nuclear attack the US can load its bombs onto German (or Belgian, Italian, Turkish and Dutch) aircraft and the pilots of those countries will drop them on an enemy…

  • Been there, done that…

    Looking through my old scraps from the eighties before going to the blockade at Büchel, I came across this newspaper cutting of me handing a letter to the duty officer at RAF Cottesmore. Not sure of the date of this action, but I also – digging deeper into my boxes – found a flyer for…