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German industry also imports (now only waste) and uses (used) a significant enough quantity of uranium from which to theoretically develop a range of nuclear devices (at the very least a "dirty bomb"). Unlike Iran or Pakistan, the Germans also have direct ICBM capabilities. "Bomb plus rocket" is the far greater evil...something that is not stated often enough in the press. The German government and people are, however, very adamant in supporting NPT and a significant group of citizens want to ban nuclear energy altogether. Considering the problems of nuclear waste or proliferation, this seems to be a very good idea. My own hypothesis (no evidence): I think Germany produced its own tactical nukes under American supervision during the Cold War. I might accept the argument that the US gave Germany tactical nukes, however, the damn things are really expensive. The American military furthermore seemed loath to give anyone any of their nuclear secrets. For good reason. All of that testing during the 1950s-1980s ensured that American nukes were extremely effective...if effective is an appropriate word. http://www.uic.com.au/nip33.htm http://www.inesap.org/bulletin16/bul16art15.htm |
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Well, I do know that under NATO. Allied strike fighters had the ability to carry and use nuclear weapons. Italy, Germany, Norway and such. The might not of had their own nuclear wepaons. But US, French, and UK forces would supply nuclear weapons to allied squadrons in case of all out war aganist the Warsaw Pact.
Did Germany develop their own nuclear weapons? I doubt it, the FGR's military was under complete control of NATO. And NATO was basicly run by American Military Command. The FGR didn't need to develop nuclear weapons because they knew that the USA would not pull out of Europe, especially Germany. They could of but they more than likely didn't because of NATO Command, and the fact that the USA is NATO's main source of nuclear weapons. |
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Interesting read on the topic: http://www.fas.org/news/germany/gose.html
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