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US nuclear bombs 'based in Netherlands' - ex-Dutch PM Lubbers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22840880Some 22 US nuclear weapons are stored on Dutch territory, the ex-PM of the Netherlands, Ruud Lubbers, says.
Mr Lubbers, prime minister from 1982-94, said they were stored underground in strong-rooms at the Volkel air base in Brabant, Dutch media report.
He made the revelation in a documentary for National Geographic - saying: "I would never have thought those silly things would still be there in 2013."
The presence of nuclear weapons on Dutch soil has long been rumoured.
Ruud Lubbers was Dutch prime minister from 1982 to 1994
***so how much do we pay the netherlands to do this?
