The World - News from Aug. 1, 1989
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The United States is preparing to store 600 new nuclear bombs in underground bunkers in West Germany to replace an existing arsenal, the Hamburg-based Stern magazine said. Stern said the United States is building 200 bunkers at nine bases to store the bombs following a 1983 North Atlantic Treaty Organization decision to replace its aging nuclear stockpile. The magazine named the new bombs as “B-61 Models 3 and 4.” Nuclear artillery shells are also being replaced with more modern weapons, it added.
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