Time to build the German bomb?

Three years ago a public debate around whether Germany needs a nuclear bomb would have been unthinkable. But a lot has changed in the meantime.

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Dear Reader,

I’m not sure that a doyenne of the 1960s hippie movement would appreciate me quoting her lyrics when it comes to support for nuclear weaponry.

But the classic Joni Mitchell line that “Don't it always seem to go, you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone” seems to appropriately sum up the German attitud…