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The 22nd Central Tank Storage Base is noteworthy as the first site inspected by the United States under the CFE Treaty (Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe). Signed in 1990, the treaty aimed to limit the number of conventional military equipment held in Europe by both NATO and the Warsaw Pact. However, the political landscape had dramatically changed by the time inspections began in 1992, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.