England and France for the first time to coordinate nuclear weapons

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Britain and France, for the first time, the use of nuclear weapons to coordinate the use of nuclear weapons, they will respond to Europe together with any “excessive danger” and associated with each other.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron, announced during the state visit of the French President to the UK, celebrates a significant step in cooperation between two European nuclear powers, as Russia responded to Russia’s growing threat.

President Donald Trump comes in the US London and Paris, including some European countries, including London and Paris, as doubts that the commitment of interest in the protection of interest.

The British government agreed with France on Wednesday was “For the first time for the first time that both countries can be independent, but to be coordinated.”

“There is no extreme threat to Europe, which will not want the answer to two nations,” England said. “Thus, any enemy that threatens the vital interests of England or France may face the power of the nuclear forces of both people.”

An Esée Palace official, “Solidarity between the two nuclear power” was a message, “he said,” he said, “he said.

England is a member of NATO nuclear planning group and protects the arsenal in protection of the security alliance, protects for a long time to make an independent, sovereignty decision on France, nuclear weapons.

Paris does not participate in the NATO nuclear sharing agreement, which allows US stations in Europe and several European countries.

The current nuclear storage of the UK consists of submarine-based missiles obtained from the United States, but can operate independently.

London recently announced the choice of launching with an air planned to receive jet warriors, American F-35A, which can deliver a nuclear weapon for decades.

France’s nuclear barriers are completely launched from homegrowner and both submarines and consisting of weather conditions.

In a speech to the British parliament on Tuesday, Macron, Britain and France are a “special responsibility for the security of Europe.”

“There is a wait in Europe that two countries facing revisionist neighbors have a special responsibility for the security of the continent.” “And this is the time to express.”

Macron has retained a nuclear doctrine that has determined the use of “vital interests” – the use of nuclear weapons for decades – “European size”.

However, Paris has never defined the term of the president’s choices open and the enemy’s guess, the key to all nuclear hesitation.

There is a precedent for the signal of an expanded barrier to England and France. In 1995, in the so-called checkpoint, the Turks and France said that “both of our country could not include a situation with vital interests.” It can be threatened without vital interests. ”

The NATO official of the Council of Europe, which has already been a former NATO official in the Council of Europe, is a “meaningful change” in the nuclear doctrines of the announcement, and it is one that can lead to another closer work as a submarine patrol.

“This is a very strong expression of Franco-English connection to European security,” he said. “It is also important for the fact that both England and France have relatively small nuclear arsenals, which is a desirable coordination.”

Lawrence Freedman, Locture Freedman, War in London in London said: “As far as I know, the French clearly admitted that they associate their nuclear capabilities with no one, so that it is a very important development.”

Potential cooperation added that nuclear submarines contain coordination in this way to be in the sea as much as possible.

In addition to nuclear weapons announcements, Britain and France began to sign the Lancaster House 2.0 Declaration, which has an update of an extensive defense pact agreed in 2010.

After that, Ukraine includes plans to replace a storm shadow / scalp in high levels in the hands of a high level of missiles to replace the shadow of the Franco-English expedition.

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Additional report by Charles Clover in London