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Lukas Mengelkamp
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Finishing a PhD in nuclear history @ University of Marburg / Working on arms control and military strategy @ifshhamburg.bsky.social.

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Das ist echt?🤯
November 8, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Congratulations, I am very much looking forward to reading it!
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Ja, ich fühle mich auch sehr an die ADM-Debatte erinnert. Zumindest in dieser zusammenfassenden Version wird nicht weiter spezifiziert, was unter "nuklearen Klein- und Kleinstwaffen" verstanden wird. Ich muss mal noch die grundlegende "militärische" Einzelstudie raussuchen.
November 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Ironically, as Davis Ellison writes, "[t]he chain of events that led to a group of journalists attending the exercise is not entirely clear, but it is obvious in later archival material that this would not happen again." (Ellison: Alliance Politics, pp. 109 - 109)
October 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
So - at one point in its history NATO was actually even more open about a nuclear excercise. But since this let to a public outcry, especially in West Germany, and difficult political debates, such transparency was never to be seen again.
October 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
theoretical casualty numbers, and damage estimations." (Davis Ellison: Alliance Politics: Revisiting NATO’s History
Through Civil-Military Relations, Dissertation, KCL, London 2025, p. 107).
October 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Similar to other media outlets, Deutsche Welle also stresses the openness toward journalists. But they also report that "the exact scenario they [NATO] practice remains classified".
However, during CARTE BLANCHE in 1955, journalists "received a full briefing on simulated atomic operations,
October 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
dem würde ich sicherlich nicht widersprechen.
October 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Das Problem ist ja nicht, dass es keine "nennenswerten Proteste" gab und gibt, sondern, dass darauf nicht reagiert wird - was ja nun heutezutage ein allgemeineres Problem vieler Protestbewegungen ist.
"faire Verteilung von Bildungskapital": Dass unser Bildungssystem als solches sozial selektiv ist,
October 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM