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File AR/SB-629 Class open place Accessioned 21 February 2026

Büchel Air Base

Declassified

Where American nuclear weapons sit inside a German police cordon.

Also: Fliegerhorst Büchel

In the record

  1. 26 January 2026 The retrograde, and the fuel nobody could sellThe largest American movement out of Europe since 1990 stops on the ramp at Ramstein. Not for politics: the as…
  2. 26 January 2026 Rutte asks for one pageThe Secretary General writes directly to the President. Not custody, not security, not a change in who holds t…
  3. 29 January 2026 The cordons close around the vaultsFeldjäger patrol vehicles park across the access road at Büchel and turn on their blue lights. Within forty mi…
  4. 3 February 2026 Four courses of action for sixty warheadsForce the fence and start a war with three founding allies. Burn the weapons in place. Sit still and call it l…
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