HC Deb 27 March 1961 vol 637 c89W
3. Mr. A. Lewis

asked the Lord Privy Seal on what date in 1958 Her Majesty's Government agreed that Germany should have atomic nuclear weapons; and whether he will place in the Library document M.C. 70.

Mr. Heath

The equipment of German forces assigned to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has never been considered in isolation. On 2nd December, 1958, in a Written Answer to the late Member for Ebbw Vale, my right hon. and learned Friend the then Foreign Secretary explained the circumstances in which the North Atlantic Council, in a series of decisions during the previous twelve months, had decided to equip the forces of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation countries, including Germany, with the latest weapons. Her Majesty's Government were of course associated with all these decisions.

M.C.70 is a classified North Atlantic Treaty Organisation document which has not been made public.

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