Dr Rashmee Roshan LallPer @[email protected] : Militarily, #Berlin’s nuclear debate has suddenly moved onto territory that would have been unthinkable only recently. Bundeswehr Brigadier General Frank Pieper has argued that his nation “needs its own tactical #nuclear weapons,” and fast. 1/3
2/3 Historian Harald Biermann says “we must urgently talk about protecting #Germany by means of our own or European nuclear weapons.”
3/3 The Greens’ Joschka Fischer, an ex-foreign minister, is also arguing for European nukes. This is remarkable for a party that emerged from the 1980s pacifist movement, one whose anti-bomb sentiments inspired huge street protests. “Times have changed,” he says. Clearly.