As the title says, I’m when did Belgium first let the US keep nukes there? No judgement, I’m just interested in whether or not it coencides with the Belgian UFO wave in 1989-1990: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_UFO_wave

I think this is such a dismissed topic that I should explain: UFOs are most often seen around nukes, be it bombers, siloes or submarines. The countries with the most UFO cases are the nuclear ones. So does the timelines coencide in Belgium’s case?

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  3. I believe it started in 1952.
    Because of the cold war the US began to erect bases and stock weapons in the territory of the allies.

    In Belgium there’s a commando bunker build for the purpose of a cold war : https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commandobunker_van_Kemmel?wprov=sfla1

    And in the military base in Kleine Brogel there is still nuclear ammunition stocked (property of the US)

    This under the NATO nuclear sharing act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_sharing?wprov=sfla1

  4. Hahahaha, no. If anything, AT ALL, it might be that there were stealth bombers that might have made a few quiet nighttime flights and people just didn’t know those were regular planes.

  5. The nuclear weapons arrived a few months after the F-16’s were delivered in 1979-1980.
    The F16’s could cary the B61 bombs. The planes Belgium had before couldn’t.
    But I doubt that the public knew back than.

  9. Belgium was the first nuclear superpower which helped it defeat the Congolese army and the Dutch and also Guldensporenslag, as mentioned in De Bello Gallico.

    So the answer is: a long time ago.

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