DW: Germany: SPD call to withdraw US nuclear arms stokes debate
The parliamentary leader of the SPD, the junior partner in Germany's coalition government, has called for US atomic weapons to be withdrawn from the country. But other parties remain opposed to such a move.
The presence of US nuclear weapons on German soil is a danger to Germany's security and should be terminated, according to the parliamentary leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), Rolf Mützenich.
Mützenich, whose party is junior partner to Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU/CSU bloc in Germany's coalition government, told the paper Tagesspiegel am Sonntag that "atomic weapons on German territory do not heighten our security, on the contrary."
"It is time that Germany ruled out their deployment in future," he added, stressing that such a move would not call Germany's membership in NATO into question.
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