France will enhance the variety of its nuclear warheads. “My responsibility is to ensure that our deterrence maintains — and will also maintain in the future — its capacity for destruction” in a “dangerous, changing environment characterized by the proliferation” of atomic weapons, President Emmanuel Macron mentioned in his speech on the Ile Longue base in Brittany, the place submarines are stationed which make sure the nation’s second strike in case of assault. “This is why I ordered to increase the number of nuclear warheads in our arsenal.” “To put an end to any speculation – he added – we will no longer communicate the figures of our nuclear arsenal, contrary to what could happen in the past”: it’s a facet of the strategic ambiguity that he has already launched prior to now. «To be free, subsequently, one have to be feared, and to be feared one have to be highly effective. This enhance in our arsenal is proof of this.”
The nuclear umbrella will also be extended to European countries, but “there will likely be no sharing of the ultimate resolution” which will remain in the hands of the Presidency of the French Republic. There will not even be a rigid guarantee of intervention. Everything will happen in “whole transparency” towards the United States and in collaboration with Great Britain. The collaboration with other countries will begin with Germany, the “key associate, essentially the most formidable”, then it will be extended to others.
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