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Published time: June 10, 2013 13:01

Around 22 US nuclear weapons are still

being stored in the Netherlands, former

Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers told

Dutch TV. WikiLeaks had previously leaked information that US

missiles were being kept there as late as 2009.

Lubbers, who was President of the Netherlands from 1982 to 1994,

said the nuclear weapons were kept underground in purpose-built

strongrooms at the Volkel airbase in Brabant.

I would never have thought those silly things would still be there in

2013,he said in an interview for a documentary on National

Geographic. He added that to his understanding ofmilitary

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thinking,keeping the missiles there was absolutely pointless.

The Dutch military has so far refrained from commenting on the

former Prime Ministers remarks, though the presence of nuclear

weapons on Dutch soil had long been suspected. WikiLeaks

confirmed their existence in 2009 when it published thousands of US

diplomatic cables on its whistleblowing site. A 2007 report includedin the leak said US nuclear weapons had been stored in a vault

underneath the Volkel airbase since the 1960s, the era of the Cuban

missile crisis.

The leaks suggested that some 200 bombs were being stored across

Europe in Belgium, Germany Turkey and the Netherlands.

The publication of this classified data was condemned by European

and US politicians alike as "illegal and dangerous.

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Anonymous user10.06.2013 14:04President of the Netherlands? How was he President in a

monarchy?

Anonymous user10.06.2013 13:26funny how we, the dutch people already KNEW that there were

nukes at vonkel, not suspect, KNEW

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