The debate about a European nuclear bomb is currently booming. Former Green Party Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer called for it in December, followed later by political scientist Herfried Münkler and Carlo Masala from the Bundeswehr University in Munich. Masala told the Funke media group: „If the Americans can no longer guarantee protection, we need a European nuclear shield.“ US expert Josef Braml agrees: „Russia, which has only been weakened to a limited extent by the war in Ukraine, will remain an existential threat to Europe for the foreseeable future, which must also be deterred with European nuclear capabilities.“