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Google Maps shows Russia's Kaliningrad nuclear weapons storage site
Original: If you are wondering about Russia's Kaliningrad Nuclear Weapons storage facility. Google Maps provides access to the top
Russia's nuclear weapons storage facility in Kaliningrad, normally highly classified, is visible on Google Maps, including satellite imagery of the site. Posts drawing attention to it note that users can even browse the location's review section. The discovery is circulating amid heightened concern over Russian military posture in the exclave bordering NATO members Poland and Lithuania, with commenters amused and alarmed that sensitive military infrastructure is so openly viewable online.
Why now: People are struck that a supposedly top-secret Russian nuclear weapons site is openly viewable on Google Maps during heightened NATO-Russia tensions.
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