Germany and Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century

This book is the first scholarly book to take a comprehensive look at Germany's nuclear weapons policies in the 21st century.

Ulrich Kühn is Director of the Arms Control and Emerging Technologies Program at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and a Nonresident Scholar with the Nuclear Policy Program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC.

Foreword Introduction Part I: Sources of Change 1. Germany and Four Futures 2. The End of Civilian Power: Russia's War Is Changing German Policy 3. Technological Change, Innovation, and German National Security Part II: Deterrence 4. Nuclear Zeitenwende(n): Germany and NATO's Nuclear Posture 5. German Musings about a Franco-German or German Bomb 6. German Public Opinion on Nuclear Weapons: Before and after Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Part III: Arms Control and Disarmament 7. German Efforts to Halt the Disintegration of Nuclear and Conventional Arms Control 8. The Greens and Nuclear Weapons: Torn Between Disarmament Aspirations and Pragmatism 9. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: Changing Disarmament Discourses in Germany? Part IV: Nonproliferation 10. Germany and the Nonproliferation Treaty 11. Germany and the Puzzling End of Nuclear Latency 12. Germany's Role in the Success and Failure of the Iran Nuclear Deal Of Dependence and Conservatism: Conclusions for German Nuclear Policies in the 21st Century