European, but not German: Photo taken following the explosion of the first French nuclear bomb in the Algerian Sahara in February 1960
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No German chancellor sought his own nuclear weapons. Nevertheless, the civilian use of nuclear energy was viewed with great suspicion – not to Germany’s detriment. A guest post.
DThe Federal Republic of Germany does not produce or possess nuclear weapons and has stipulated this in various international treaties – most extensively in 1990 in the treaty on the final settlement with regard to Germany, the so-called “Two-plus-Four Treaty.” And that’s how it happened.
After the experiences of the Second World War, there was a broad international consensus since the late 1940s that any future German statehood should not have nuclear weapons. As early as 1954, on the occasion of the Federal Republic of Germany joining NATO, the then Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (CDU) had to sign a document in Paris in which he renounced the production of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction.
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