New discoveries
Well, well. Today I drove past the former Soviet former Nazi barracks at Kramnitz. My eye was caught by the athletic Soviet mural facing the main road. I didn't stop the car to take the photo, but of course someone else (Remoto13) has done it for me.
This was a part of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, which at the end of the Cold War included over 300000 soldiers, and another 200000 family members
One link leads to another, of course. Two years ago the BBC reported that the Soviet Union based a dozen intermediate range ballistic missiles here in Brandenburg in the 1950s, which was certainly news to me.
From there, the flight time to London and Paris would have been about 10 minutes (7-1/2 for flat earth, no drag, g=10 m/s^2). This was before any sort of in-space detection capability, so the first and last they heard of it in Whitehall would have been the bolt from the blue exploding over their heads. Exciting times.
Yet another reason why the 1987 INF Treaty was a really good idea. (Space Junk).
This was a part of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, which at the end of the Cold War included over 300000 soldiers, and another 200000 family members
One link leads to another, of course. Two years ago the BBC reported that the Soviet Union based a dozen intermediate range ballistic missiles here in Brandenburg in the 1950s, which was certainly news to me.
From there, the flight time to London and Paris would have been about 10 minutes (7-1/2 for flat earth, no drag, g=10 m/s^2). This was before any sort of in-space detection capability, so the first and last they heard of it in Whitehall would have been the bolt from the blue exploding over their heads. Exciting times.
Yet another reason why the 1987 INF Treaty was a really good idea. (Space Junk).