Stock Photo - Former army base in military area in Misov, Brdy range near Pilsen, Czech Republic. In this super-secret underground depot with code name Javor 51 former Soviet Union army unit operated within Czechoslovakian territory. Nuclear armament was stored in the facility from 1968 till the fall of the Iron Curtain and withdrawal of Soviet Army from Czechoslovakia in 1990?s. Soviet nuclear armament based in Misov was determined for Soviet army mobile launching platforms deployed in former Czechoslovakia during the era of the Cold War. The Iron Curtain Foundation turned this unique army depot into Atom Museum Javor 51 in mid of 2013. The museum is believed to be the only one museum in the world opened in the same area where nuclear armament was previous stored. Visitors can see not only original nuclear depot but also well preserved equipment and technical facilities used by former Soviet Army. The Iron Curtain Foundation members prepared also expositions related to use of nuclear energy for military and civilian purposes. After the split of Czechoslovakia into Czech Republic and Slovakia in the end of 1992 depot was used for storing tons of useless Czechoslovak federal currency. In the year 2006 there were stored remains of German Wehrmacht soldiers from World War II for more than two years, later buried in Cheb, Czech Republic. (CTK PHOTO/Petr Mlch)

Stock Photo: Former army base in military area in Misov, Brdy range near Pilsen, Czech Republic. In this super-secret underground depot with code name Javor 51 former Soviet.

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