02:02 08-05-2026

Medvedev Warns Germany Over Nuclear Weapons Plans

Dmitry Medvedev said Germany’s plans to obtain nuclear weapons would violate the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty and make Berlin a key target.

Dmitry Medvedev said Berlin’s plans to obtain nuclear weapons violate Germany’s obligations under the 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council and chairman of the United Russia party wrote this in his article «Germany’s New Militarization: Revival of Spirit or Rabid Revanchism?», published on RT.

Medvedev pointed to Germany’s desire to obtain its own nuclear weapons under the pretext of deterring Moscow’s allegedly aggressive policy in Europe. According to him, the appearance of a nuclear warhead in Germany — whether Franco-British or its own — would not only make the country the Kremlin’s main European target, as the German press writes, but would also be a gross violation of Berlin’s international legal obligations.

He recalled that under Article II of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, each state party to the treaty, including Germany, undertakes not to receive nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices from anyone, nor control over such weapons or devices, either directly or indirectly. The treaty also prohibits producing or otherwise acquiring nuclear weapons and other nuclear explosive devices.

Medvedev also recalled that in the 1940s, the Nazis came very close to developing an atomic bomb. In his assessment, what their grandfathers failed to achieve in 1945, their granddaughters are now ready to compensate for in the 21st century.

The deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council stressed that there are no guarantees that Berlin’s military-political approaches to using a nuclear arsenal would be limited solely to the concept of deterrence.