France is offering to share its arsenal with its neighbors as Western Europeans question US protection
The year 2026 has barely begun, but “nuclearization” is already a strong contender to be its top word. The European NATO members want more nukes, the US and Israel are bombing Iran for allegedly wanting some too, and the Doomsday Clock could soon run out of seconds left before midnight.
The clock, a visual aid the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists uses to show how close humanity is to nuclear annihilation, is portending more doom than ever after a January adjustment to 85 seconds before the end. The events of the past several days probably merit another correction.
France must be feared
On Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron announced plans to expand his country’s nuclear stockpile. The goal, he said, is to ensure a secrecy-obscured arsenal that “no state, however powerful, could shield itself from it, and no state, however vast, would recover from it.”
“To be free, we have to be feared,” declared the leader, whose term expires in 14 months.
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