Woensdrecht is a municipality

Municipality

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 and a town in the southern Netherlands

Netherlands

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Woensdrecht is mainly known for Woensdrecht Air Base

Woensdrecht Air Base

Woensdrecht Air Base is a military airport near the town of Woensdrecht, about 10 km south of the city of Bergen op Zoom in the Netherlands. It is located near highway A58 and the border with Belgium....

. In 1983 it was decided that the US would station 48 nuclear armed

Nuclear weapon

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 cruise missile

Cruise missile

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s here, unless the USSR would reduce the number of SS-20 missiles to 378. Since the number was higher in 1985, stationing was on. Among the Dutch population there was protest

Hollanditis

Hollanditis was a term coined in 1981 by the American historian Walter Laqueur. It was used to describe the wave of pacifist neutralism that swept through the Netherlands in the first half of the 1980s and which influenced similar grass roots movements in other European countries...

 against this. The plan was cancelled in 1987 due to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

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Population centres

• Hoogerheide
  Hoogerheide
  Hoogerheide is a village in the municipality of Woensdrecht, North Brabant, Netherlands. The name "Hoogerheide" means "High Heath" in English. The Grand Prix Adri van der Poel cyclo-cross race is held annually in Hoogerheide.-External links:*...
  
  (population: 8,268)
• Ossendrecht
  Ossendrecht
  Ossendrecht is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located in the municipality of Woensdrecht, about 12 km southeast of Bergen op Zoom.Ossendrecht was a separate municipality until 1997, when it became part of Woensdrecht....
  
   (5,300)
• Putte
  Putte (Netherlands)
  Putte is part of the Dutch municipality of Woensdrecht, and had 3751inhabitants as of 1 January 2008. The village lies on and extends over the border between The Netherlands and Belgium, the Belgian part being Putte ....
  
   (3,860)
• Huijbergen
  Huijbergen
  Huijbergen is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located in the municipality of Woensdrecht, about southeast of Bergen op Zoom, close to the Belgian border.-External links: Map of the former municipality, around 1868....
  
  (2,180)
• Woensdrecht (1,470)

External links

• Official Website