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If Soviet Union were to fire over this zone with nuclear weapons directed at France, or if, conversely, the Americans or the French were to fire over this territory with nuclear weapons towards Russia, the resulting radioactive clouds would be driven into this territory by the west winds from the one side, and the east winds from the other, and the Soviet Union could certainly not request the winds to keep to a specific path.
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April 1958, to Konrad Adenauer. Quoted in "Konrad Adenauer" - Page 308 - by Hans-Peter Schwarz - History - 1995

 

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