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I suspect the existence of nuclear weapons and e.g. France having them actually had a significant impact on them forming that realisation.
by simonh 5y ago
I suspect the existence of nuclear weapons and e.g. France having them actually had a significant impact on them forming that realisation.
- mytailorisrich 5y agoNot really. France got its first nukes in 1960 and what had happened in both world wars was enough to change everyone's perception nukes or no nukes: The same would had happened if nukes had not even existed. Nukes are a guarantee against invasion and in the context for France and the Cold War especially aimed against the USSR. But they don't mean you need to be friendly and cooperate. France and Germany (and others in Europe) really made a decision quite irrespective of the existence of nukes to stop European self-destruction and to work peacefully together from then on.