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Article: Tomorrow, a Eurobomb?(possibility of a European nuclear defense)
- Article from:
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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During an annual meeting of French ambassadors last August 31, President Jacques Chirac announced that France might eventually offer its nuclear weapons to a common European defense. France, said Chirac, "would take an initiative at an appropriate time on this subject and in concert with its principal partners." A week later, Prime Minister Alain Juppe explained that France would invite Germany to join it and Britain, Europe's two nuclear weapons states, in future discussions toward creating a system of "concerted deterrence" in Europe, using the force de frappe, a force that would, as before, remain independent of NATO.
Chirac and Juppe's statements shouldn't have ...