"Asked how U.S. plans to modernize tactical nuclear weapons fit with the German call for their withdrawal, the government argues that the B61 Life Extension Program (LEP) is a “national decision” by the United States, which has to be seen “independent of the question of implementation of nuclear sharing within NATO.” This is at odds with previous arguments by Chancellor Merkel that participating in nuclear sharing arrangements “secures Germany’s influence in this sensitive area of alliance politics.” If deployment of new nuclear weapons in Europe is not such a sensitive area, what is?"
The Local (Germany's news in English) AFP/DPA/The Local/jcw 21.5.2012: "NATO leaders on Sunday gave the go-ahead for the new European missile shield, provoking anger in Russia. The US air base in Ramstein, western Germany, will host part of the system."
James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) -- At a public seminar in Washington, DC, hosted by CNS on July 17, 2009, German Federal Foreign Office Minister of State, Gernot Erler reviewed Germany's disarmament and nonproliferation policies and
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Reacting to Obama's vision of a nuclear-free world, German Foreign Minister Steinmeier has called for American nuclear weapons to be removed from Germany. His stance is in opposition to Chancellor Merkel, who wants to keep the bombs to sec