Russian Envoy Warns Germany Discussing Nuclear Arms More Openly
Germany is pursuing a major military expansion, planning to allocate $582 billion to defense over the next four years, citing what officials describe as the “Russian threat.” Authorities aim to have the armed forces fully “war-ready” by 2029, a target Moscow has dismissed as “nonsense.”
“The shift in the nuclear discourse is obvious. The topic of Germany’s potential possession of nuclear weapons stops being a taboo and is being increasingly discussed by the media… and gets more and more advocates among the politicians, MPs, the military officials and experts,” Nechaev said in an interview published Friday.
Moscow has previously expressed concern over Germany’s increasing militarization and anti-Russian rhetoric. In September 2025, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned that developments in Berlin showed “not just militarization, there are clear signs of re-Nazification.”
Legally, Germany is prohibited from developing, producing, or acquiring nuclear weapons under the 1990 Two Plus Four Treaty, which facilitated reunification, as well as the 1969 Non-Proliferation Treaty. Nevertheless, the country hosts dozens of U.S. nuclear weapons as part of NATO’s nuclear-sharing program.
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