https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_sharing

[index@sh.itjust.works]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_sharing

Germany already has nuclear bombs

[quittenbrot@feddit.org]

Doubtful, given Trump's displayed reluctance to honour a defence treaty.

[saleh@feddit.org]

Nuclear sharing is the worst of both worlds. You make yourself a certain target, but you cannot exercise control over the weapons. It's turning MAD into SAD (self assured destruction)

[trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works]

Those "German" nukes are a handful of US nukes for use by Germany under NATO's nuclear sharing policy, when approved by the US. With that orange muppet in the White House, Germany really hasn't any nukes it can count on, especially not for deterrence against the orange muppet's puppeteer in Moscow.

[index@sh.itjust.works]

As if they even need to use them...

[trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works]

The point of nuclear weapons is to have them to never have use them, by scaring the shit out of potential enemies, so they don't dare to attack.

But in order for the weapons to be a credible threat, and therefore a deterrent, their use must be possible.

Nukes that need authorisation by Donald Trump won't deter Vladimir Putin.

[kissaki@feddit.org]

What does that have to do with the claim that they have nukes?

If they can't use them or only conditionally use them then they don't really have them.