The historic bar is closed. For sale. What were once farms, complete with herds of cattle that looked like Texas, closed. For sale. Here the streets of Quirra, once an agricultural hamlet on the eastern coast of Sardinia, close to the most warm-hearted polygon in the Mediterranean, are as deserted as ever. In the presence of a polygon as secret as it is mysterious, silence is still in force: it is forbidden to poke one's nose into war affairs.
From Beelzebub to today
Beyond that barbed wire unfolded for kilometers you cannot go, at least since the time of the national Beelzebub, that Giulio Andreotti who right here, in great secrecy, planned the Italian nuclear missiles capable of striking, from the sea ravine between San Lorenzo and the hamlet of Quirra, distant Russia. All secret in the affairs of state, the most hidden ones, hidden by pseudo civilian missions which, on the other hand, in reality, were nothing more than an American appendage of nuclear proliferation in the West. Little has changed since then, the rule is always the same: mitigate curiosity with proclamations of research and science.
Other than "dual"
Today the most popular word in these parts is "dual", or experiments with a dual function, civil and military. Something, however, must have escaped the rigorous control of the Ministry of Military Communications, always striving to represent the war ranges of Sardinia as givers of peace and well-being, work and development. Those devastating images that ended up in the armored circuits of arms sellers around the world, complete with beaches and coasts of the was enchanted island of Sardinia, cannot be explained differently. Of course, there is no Italian Defense brand, but the seal is all from the Bel Paese. The cables tell of an all-Sardinian experiment complete with a triple experimental launch of surface-air-sea missiles intended to hit every enemy ship or similar target that presents itself on the hypothetical proscenium to be destroyed at a distance of one hundred kilometers. Experiments, says the official version.
