Russian Envoy Warns of Possibility of Germany Acquiring Nuclear Arms
Germany is currently undergoing a large-scale military buildup, planning to allocate $582 billion to defense over the next four years, citing what officials describe as a potential “Russian threat.” German authorities have set 2029 as the target for having armed forces fully “war-ready” in case of conflict with Russia—a scenario 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 told reporters in an interview published on Friday.
Moscow has previously expressed concern over Germany’s expanding militarization and anti-Russian rhetoric. In September 2025, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned that it represents “not just militarization, there are clear signs of re-Nazification.”
Under the Two Plus Four Treaty, which facilitated German reunification in 1990, and the 1969 Non-Proliferation Treaty, Berlin is explicitly prohibited from developing, producing, or acquiring nuclear weapons. Nevertheless, the country hosts dozens of U.S. nuclear weapons on its soil as part of NATO’s nuclear sharing arrangements.
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