Former Russian Military Base, Totvazsony

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consisted of two monolitic concrete storage bunkers for nuclear warheads and one storage shelter of type Granit.

from: www.kulugyiintezet.hu/fpr/2008/143-148_FRP_2008_01_Kiss...

The discussion over the withdrawal of the Soviet troops and the nuclear weapons took place at Prime Minister Miklós Németh’s working visit to Moscow on March 3, 1989. It was not the first time that the withdrawal of the some 80,000-strong Soviet troops had been raised; however, this was the first time that the question of the Soviet nuclear warheads stored in
Hungary had been put on the agenda of bilateral talks. The MTI made it public only as
late as 2005 that there had been Soviet nuclear weapons in Hungary until 1989. Miklós
Németh himself got to know of the hand-written agreement on the stationing of Soviet
nuclear weapons in Hungary concluded in 1969-1970 only late 1988, which he – after
General Secretary János Kádár és his predecessor, Károly Grósz – had to sign too. Fi-
nally, it was the Soviet ambassador to Budapest, I. Stukalin who handed a letter from
Prime Minister Rizhkov to Prime Miniszter Németh at the end of 1989, in which the
Hungarian leader was informed that the warheads had been withdrawn on November
24-26, 1989. The grotesque circumstances of the whole story are shown by the fact that
when the Hungarian Minister of Defense got to know of the contents of the letter, he
indignantly posed the question that how come that the Hungarian counterintelligence
had not perceived anything at all. In reality, the Hungarian side did not know that the
warheads under discussion had been stored in the vicinity of the holiday resort areas
of the northern shore of Lake Balaton around Tótvázsony.