Tag Archives: Spain

Pick up a map of Europe, and you may notice that Spain will resemble an almost round fruit hanging from the sturdy trunk of mainland Europe. Geographically Spain flanks one side of the continent, but in terms of cultural capital, it held sway as the centre of the world for centuries. At its height, the regions we call now call …

How many times has the US Air Force dropped nuclear bombs on Spain? The answer is just the once but they did drop four of them… By the 1960s the world was in the most tense phase of the “Cold War”. The “West” was in a nuclear standoff with the Soviet Union. Both sides had enough nuclear weapons to ensure …