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The theme of these notes is that European Nuclear Disarmament (END), which enjoyed wide popularity in the 1980s, ought again to become prevalent in discussions about the European Union and its future. The author sets out to deconstruct the mental barriers which separate the European constitutional debate from the strategic issue of the nuclear weapons. He quotes, among others, Altiero Spinelli , who envisaged a denuclearized EU from which the United States had militarily disengaged itself.