Nuclear security

Nukes Should Stay: German Court Rules Against Removal of US Weapons From Country

A peace activist tried to prove that the reported 20 nuclear missiles pose a danger to German citizens, being a possible terror target, and violated basic rights; but a court in Germany found her complaint insufficiently justified.

A local activist wanted to oblige federal authorities to persuade the US to withdraw nuclear weapons from German soil, but Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe has ruled that the US nuclear weapons can remain at the air base in Buechel, rejecting her complaint. The country’s top judicial body also announced that her claim wasn’t sufficiently justified, and inadmissible.