559th USAAG

The 559th United States Army Artillery Group (USAAG) was a unit of the United States Army assigned to NATO during the Cold War. Activated in the mid-1960s, its primary mission was to oversee and manage U.S. nuclear warheads allocated to host nation artillery units, particularly within Germany. The 559th USAAG worked closely with the German Bundeswehr, ensuring the security, maintenance, and readiness of nuclear munitions under the NATO nuclear sharing arrangement. The unit was inactivated in the early 1990s as part of the post-Cold War reduction of U.S. forces and the withdrawal of nuclear weapons from Europe.