History Memes

It’s interesting that today Germany houses US nuclear weapons for defense as part of NATO but has a population firmly opposed to nuclear power.

The West German civilian reactor program was just meant to cover the development of all the parts needed to develop nuclear weapons. The Soviets ran a massive propaganda campaign against it and the Western allies did not like the idea that Germany, which recently did invade most of Europe, had nuclear weapons. However the fear of West German politicans of Soviet invasion was somewhat justified, so to calm them down the US station US weapons in West Germany as a sort of insurance. However you do not need nuclear reactors to built nukes with highly enriched uranium, but just an enrichment plant and the ability to put a nuke together. Guess which parts of the civilian reactor program are still around.