The Russian general Leonid Ivashov said in a statement to the Norwegian newspaper, Dagbladet, that Russia had programmed tactical nuclear weapons to attack the radar station.
Between 1976 and 1984 he worked as a senior aid to the Soviet Minister of Defense Dmitriy Ustinov.
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