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Up until recently (here's an article from 2014 [1]), the Swiss still had explosives near major bridges just in case of attack. They seem to have taken home defe
by merely-unlikely 4y ago
Up until recently (here's an article from 2014 [1]), the Swiss still had explosives near major bridges just in case of attack. They seem to have taken home defense rather seriously in more than one way.
"Until now, hundreds of key roads and bridges across Switzerland have held stores of explosives for use in the event of invasion. The policy was developed during the Cold War, because of fears of an attack by Warsaw Pact countries, eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe."
[1]https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/cold-war-defence_army-to-find-and-dispose-of-hidden-explosives/41120604 https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/cold-war-defence_army-to-find-a...