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Göttinger 18
The Göttinger Achtzehn (Göttingen eighteen) was a group of eighteen leading nuclear researchers of the newly-founded Federal Republic of Germany who wrote a manifesto (Göttinger Manifest, Göttinger Erklärung) on April 12th, 1957, opposing chancellor Konrad Adenauer and defense secretary Franz-Josef Strauß's move to arm the Western German army, the Bundeswehr, with tactical nuclear weapons.
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