New German government wants U.S. nukes out

Reuters has printed excerpts from the coalition agreement between German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats and Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle‘s free democrats, which includes the following paragraph: we will strive within (NATO) and with our American allies for a withdrawal of the last U.S. nuclear weapons from Germany.’  An estimated 20 nuclear bombs are still ...

By , a former associate editor at Foreign Policy.

Reuters has printed excerpts from the coalition agreement between German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats and Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle's free democrats, which includes the following paragraph:

Reuters has printed excerpts from the coalition agreement between German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats and Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle‘s free democrats, which includes the following paragraph:

we will strive within (NATO) and with our American allies for a withdrawal of the last U.S. nuclear weapons from Germany.’ 

An estimated 20 nuclear bombs are still based in Germany, a holdover from the United States’ Cold War deterrence strategy. 

Hat tip: Joe Cirincione

Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating

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