Former army chief says Soviets stored nuclear weapons in communist Czechoslovakia

The former head of the Czechoslovak armed forces General Miroslav Vacek has said that nuclear weapons were installed in communist Czechoslovakia in 1969. General Vacek said that the nuclear warheads were stored at Soviet-controlled military sites in Mišov, Bílina and Ralsko and were fully in Soviet hands. The general claimed that although the Soviets and the Americans had an agreement not to give their allies access to nuclear weapons in peacetime both superpowers had nuclear weapons on standby – the Soviets in Czechoslovakia, the United States in what was then West Germany.