Nuclear Zeitenwende(n)
Year: 2024

Germany has always played an outsized role in shaping the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO’s) nuclear posture, most importantly in NATO's nuclear sharing arrangement. The concomitant institutional arrangements in which U.S. allies can shape NATO nuclear policy were a response to German fears of abandonment and entrapment. This chapter looks at Germany's nuclear strategy after the end of the Cold War and discusses how German leaders have responded to two far-reaching changes in Germany'