Lightning-Speed Deal. Germany to Purchase F-35 for Nuclear Sharing

... over the 30 years that followed. RIAC has already described the history of the program in detail . The first carriers of U.S. tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) in Germany were deployed in October 1953 when the U.S. forces stationed in Germany received first ... ... but also in Poland, Czechoslovakia or Hungary. Later, the Luftwaffe used the U.S.-purchased F-104G Starfighter for nuclear aviation bomb carriers (using a high-altitude interceptor as a low-level strike aircraft largely resulted in its notoriously many ...