The military area, the nuclear facility Javor 50 is also hidden inside.Compared to Javor 52, it is quite clean and not so vandalized.However, we did not have time to go through everything.It started to get busy.
Buildings JAVOR 50 / JAVOR 51 / JAVOR 52
Current status:
Building JAVOR 50 – Bílina has been destroyed and looted
Building JAVOR 51 – Borovno – Míšov / Nuclear Museum
The entrances to the JAVOR 52 facility in Bělá pod Bezdězem were blocked off because the site is being used to house refugees.
In 1964, the leadership of the Soviet Army (SA) requested the construction of secret storage facilities for special munitions —nuclear warheads—which would be stored there and, in the event of an attack from the west, ready for deployment to the mobile launchers of the Soviet Army and the Czechoslovak People’s Army, as well as to the bomber aircraft of both armies.The nuclear storage units reported directly to the General Staff in Moscow—the 12th Main Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Defense, which made decisions regarding the potential release of nuclear munitions. These facilities were completely outside the jurisdiction of both the Czechoslovak People’s Army (ČSLA) command and the CGV (Central Group of Soviet Forces). At that time, however, there were no nuclear warheads on the territory of our country, and the Czechoslovak army was to receive them from the Soviet Army only in the event of an increased threat.The plan was drawn up for three completely identical complexes, which were secretly constructed between 1966 and 1968 by Czechoslovak companies as “Communication Cable Units” under the code names Javor 50 – Bílina, Javor 51 – Borovno – Míšov, and Javor 52 – Bělá pod Bezdězem. There were two identical facilities in the GDR, three in Poland, and two each in Hungary and Bulgaria. The JAVOR facilities were interim storage sites, not warehouses!
The difference between a warehouse and a temporary storage facility lies in their very purpose—specifically, the duration of material storage and the frequency of material issuance and receipt. A standard warehouse is used for the long-term storage of weapons, but an interim storage facility is, simply put, a short-term location for storing weapons. In the early 1960s, the global situation changed rapidly, and so the USSR issued a new directive—or rather, a requirement—to build secret storage facilities for special munitions: nuclear warheads.According to the operational plan from October 1964, the Czechoslovak Front was to carry out 131 nuclear strikes while fulfilling its missions (96 of which were to be carried out by ground forces’ missile systems and 35 by air force units).
! ! ! However, the turnaround time for delivering nuclear warheads was 18–22 hours, whereas the Czechoslovak People’s Army’s ground-based missile forces were supposed to be ready to conduct combat operations within 3 hours. Therefore, in December 1965, a Czechoslovak-Soviet agreement was signed on the construction of nuclear munitions storage facilities on our territory. In April 1966, as part of Operation “Javor,” construction began on special facilities in the localities of Bílina, Bělá pod Bezdězem, and Míšov–Borovno (Jince Military Training Area), which were to be managed by Soviet Army units disguised as signal units.! ! !
In December 1968, the Soviet Army was the first to take over the depot in Bělá pod Bezdězem, and the corresponding special unit took up its position in February of the following year. Only a senior representative of the Commander-in-Chief of the Joint Armed Forces of the Warsaw Pact Member States at the Ministry of National Defense of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was authorized to inspect these depots. Representatives of the Czechoslovak People’s Army (ČSLA) were not granted access. The point was that these were not supposed to be depots for the long-term storage of nuclear munitions.The Soviets were always extremely distrustful, even paranoid, toward everyone, and they didn’t trust us at that time either, so they followed the policy of entrusting the construction of classified facilities for the storage and assembly of nuclear munitionsto the Czechoslovak People’s Army’s construction units; however, as soon as construction was completed, the Soviets took over everything. The operation and maintenance of the facilities were under their control, and they did not allow anyone from outside to enter—it was like a small state within a state. In the warehouses, these nuclear warheads were to be simply assembled and activated, after which they would be ready for delivery to the Czechoslovak People’s Army and the Soviet Missile Brigade.
Description of the facilities: At the heart of the complex were always two reinforced-concrete storage facilities located below ground level on a 20-meter-deep concrete conical foundation. Each of these storage facilities had two opposite entrances, each with its own ramp, a roller conveyor system for transporting nuclear warhead containers, and a pair of armored doors that opened only during the loading and unloading of containers. Using cranes inside, the containers were lowered to the floor of the main hall, where there were entrances to four storage areas. The entrance for warehouse personnel was a camouflaged submarine hatch at the top of a camouflaged embankment, where a tall forest stands today.
Each concrete storage bunker had its own well with a water distribution system, a backup diesel-electric generator powered by a six-cylinder Škoda engine, air filtration and complete air evacuation systems, as well as distribution systems for helium and compressed air, and waste disposal systems.The Míšov complex covers an area of 150 hectares and was divided internally into several security zones with different access regulations. Immediately beyond the gate is the “civilian” sector, which houses a former hospital, a store, a dog kennel, a guardhouse, a cultural hall, a waterworks, a boiler room, a playground, a school, a kindergarten, and apartment buildings that housed approximately 300 people, including 70 SA soldiers.The most heavily guarded zone, containing ammunition depots for nuclear warheads, was located at the rear. It was surrounded by two fences with continuous guard duty and dogs. Access was restricted to warehouse personnel only. Even within the warehouse itself, there was a system of varying access permissions to different areas. Soviet troops left the facility in Míšov on July 4, 1990.
! ! ! NUCLEAR AMMUNITION/WARHEADS WERE NEVER STORED IN THESE FACILITIES (for the reasons described above in the text) ,OR, IT HAS NEVER BEEN PROVEN—NOR HAS IT BEEN DISPROVEN—THAT THOSE NUCLEAR WEAPONS WERE EVER PRESENT THERE! ! ! THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OR DOCUMENT THAT EXPLICITLY STATES THAT: YES, IN SUCH-AND-SUCH A YEAR,THESE WEAPONS WERE BROUGHT TO SUCH-AND-SUCH A FACILITY AND WERE REMOVED IN SUCH-AND-SUCH A YEAR, signed by the official responsible for this operation, etc. BUT NOTHING OF THE SORT EXISTS!!!
At least from your photos I can see what it looked like; we were there today, and it’s been razed to the ground. Most of the area has been filled in; the former nuclear weapons storage facility is still accessible, but it’s been completely cleared out. I found out that demolition took place this past May, and they’re planning to build houses and apartments there.
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Buildings JAVOR 50 / JAVOR 51 / JAVOR 52 Current status: Building JAVOR 50 – Bílina has been destroyed and looted Building JAVOR 51 – Borovno – Míšov / Nuclear Museum The entrances to the JAVOR 52 facility in Bělá pod Bezdězem were blocked off because the site is being used to house refugees. In 1964, the leadership of the Soviet Army (SA) requested the construction of secret storage facilities for special munitions —nuclear warheads—which would be stored there and, in the event of an attack from the west, ready for deployment to the mobile launchers of the Soviet Army and the Czechoslovak People’s Army, as well as to the bomber aircraft of both armies.The nuclear storage units reported directly to the General Staff in Moscow—the 12th Main Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Defense, which made decisions regarding the potential release of nuclear munitions. These facilities were completely outside the jurisdiction of both the Czechoslovak People’s Army (ČSLA) command and the CGV (Central Group of Soviet Forces). At that time, however, there were no nuclear warheads on the territory of our country, and the Czechoslovak army was to receive them from the Soviet Army only in the event of an increased threat.The plan was drawn up for three completely identical complexes, which were secretly constructed between 1966 and 1968 by Czechoslovak companies as “Communication Cable Units” under the code names Javor 50 – Bílina, Javor 51 – Borovno – Míšov, and Javor 52 – Bělá pod Bezdězem. There were two identical facilities in the GDR, three in Poland, and two each in Hungary and Bulgaria. The JAVOR facilities were interim storage sites, not warehouses! The difference between a warehouse and a temporary storage facility lies in their very purpose—specifically, the duration of material storage and the frequency of material issuance and receipt. A standard warehouse is used for the long-term storage of weapons, but an interim storage facility is, simply put, a short-term location for storing weapons. In the early 1960s, the global situation changed rapidly, and so the USSR issued a new directive—or rather, a requirement—to build secret storage facilities for special munitions: nuclear warheads.According to the operational plan from October 1964, the Czechoslovak Front was to carry out 131 nuclear strikes while fulfilling its missions (96 of which were to be carried out by ground forces’ missile systems and 35 by air force units). ! ! ! However, the turnaround time for delivering nuclear warheads was 18–22 hours, whereas the Czechoslovak People’s Army’s ground-based missile forces were supposed to be ready to conduct combat operations within 3 hours. Therefore, in December 1965, a Czechoslovak-Soviet agreement was signed on the construction of nuclear munitions storage facilities on our territory. In April 1966, as part of Operation “Javor,” construction began on special facilities in the localities of Bílina, Bělá pod Bezdězem, and Míšov–Borovno (Jince Military Training Area), which were to be managed by Soviet Army units disguised as signal units.! ! ! In December 1968, the Soviet Army was the first to take over the depot in Bělá pod Bezdězem, and the corresponding special unit took up its position in February of the following year. Only a senior representative of the Commander-in-Chief of the Joint Armed Forces of the Warsaw Pact Member States at the Ministry of National Defense of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was authorized to inspect these depots. Representatives of the Czechoslovak People’s Army (ČSLA) were not granted access. The point was that these were not supposed to be depots for the long-term storage of nuclear munitions.The Soviets were always extremely distrustful, even paranoid, toward everyone, and they didn’t trust us at that time either, so they followed the policy of entrusting the construction of classified facilities for the storage and assembly of nuclear munitionsto the Czechoslovak People’s Army’s construction units; however, as soon as construction was completed, the Soviets took over everything. The operation and maintenance of the facilities were under their control, and they did not allow anyone from outside to enter—it was like a small state within a state. In the warehouses, these nuclear warheads were to be simply assembled and activated, after which they would be ready for delivery to the Czechoslovak People’s Army and the Soviet Missile Brigade. Description of the facilities: At the heart of the complex were always two reinforced-concrete storage facilities located below ground level on a 20-meter-deep concrete conical foundation. Each of these storage facilities had two opposite entrances, each with its own ramp, a roller conveyor system for transporting nuclear warhead containers, and a pair of armored doors that opened only during the loading and unloading of containers. Using cranes inside, the containers were lowered to the floor of the main hall, where there were entrances to four storage areas. The entrance for warehouse personnel was a camouflaged submarine hatch at the top of a camouflaged embankment, where a tall forest stands today. Each concrete storage bunker had its own well with a water distribution system, a backup diesel-electric generator powered by a six-cylinder Škoda engine, air filtration and complete air evacuation systems, as well as distribution systems for helium and compressed air, and waste disposal systems.The Míšov complex covers an area of 150 hectares and was divided internally into several security zones with different access regulations. Immediately beyond the gate is the “civilian” sector, which houses a former hospital, a store, a dog kennel, a guardhouse, a cultural hall, a waterworks, a boiler room, a playground, a school, a kindergarten, and apartment buildings that housed approximately 300 people, including 70 SA soldiers.The most heavily guarded zone, containing ammunition depots for nuclear warheads, was located at the rear. It was surrounded by two fences with continuous guard duty and dogs. Access was restricted to warehouse personnel only. Even within the warehouse itself, there was a system of varying access permissions to different areas. Soviet troops left the facility in Míšov on July 4, 1990. ! ! ! NUCLEAR AMMUNITION/WARHEADS WERE NEVER STORED IN THESE FACILITIES (for the reasons described above in the text) ,OR, IT HAS NEVER BEEN PROVEN—NOR HAS IT BEEN DISPROVEN—THAT THOSE NUCLEAR WEAPONS WERE EVER PRESENT THERE! ! ! THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OR DOCUMENT THAT EXPLICITLY STATES THAT: YES, IN SUCH-AND-SUCH A YEAR,THESE WEAPONS WERE BROUGHT TO SUCH-AND-SUCH A FACILITY AND WERE REMOVED IN SUCH-AND-SUCH A YEAR, signed by the official responsible for this operation, etc. BUT NOTHING OF THE SORT EXISTS!!!
At least from your photos I can see what it looked like; we were there today, and it’s been razed to the ground. Most of the area has been filled in; the former nuclear weapons storage facility is still accessible, but it’s been completely cleared out. I found out that demolition took place this past May, and they’re planning to build houses and apartments there.
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