War in Ukraine: in Büchel, despite the war, pacifists resist

Special envoy to Büchel

Surrounded by volcanic hills drowned in greenery and fir trees, bathed by the lazy Moselle, the site of the American air base at Büchel would be reduced to a bucolic landscape if its immense perimeter were not surrounded by barbed wire and a path of round.

The entrance, at the bend of a bend, is discreet, as the perimeter of the site is unknown, and fragmentary, even secret, the information which emanates from it.

The US Air Force's 702 squadron is responsible for the storage and maintenance of ammunition assigned to the German Luftwaffe's Tornado fighter bombers… including dozens of nuclear weapons.

Büchel is a unique military place on German territory, as invasive as it is subdued.

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For thirty years, handfuls of pacifists with fluctuating numbers have secured a stretch of lawn adjacent to barbed wire, wedged between the entrance to the base and a busy road.

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