Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy
Banned
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to make the Federal Republic of Germany a nuclear power by the present day with a POD after its formation in 1949.
Does it have to be indigenous nukes?
Yes, though the nuclear program leading to them could be a joint one (let's say Franco-German-Italian).
although I highly doubt it, seeing as noone but the British and Polish still hate Germans...
The best way for Germany to get nuclear weapons would be for the Soviet Union in the 1970's to be a lot more belligerent.
In the 1960's Europe was still too worried about Germany becoming a threat, again. So nuclear missiles would be a no-no.
In the 1980's Germany's left wing was too powerful to let the German army expand into nuclear weapons.
If in the early 1970's the Soviet Union had placed nuclear weapons in East Germany, or had mobilized its military forces a few times on the German border, there just might be enough motivation for Germany to create a nuclear arsenal.
Its unlikely, but possible.
After the fall of the Soviet Union any real hope of nuclear weapons appearing in Germany ends. Who will Germany fight that they require them? If they do go to war with the USA, Russia, or China, they MIGHT need them, but in that case they'll have France's nuclear weapons and maybe Britain's'.
Germany doesn't have any real enemies right now, and the government and populace is too left wing to want them.
I'm an american, but normally you'd be right. At the moment it's just a German thing really. All the pacifist education we gave them after the war really worked!