Macron to open debate on extending French nuclear protection to European allies

Re:Macron to open debate on extending French nuclear protect... by ironyman on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @07:44PM (#43274765)

These are nuclear capable countries but actually fielding them requires strong political will and a supply chain that is untouchable to adversaries. Given the amount of sabotage the Chinese routinely do to Taiwanese, Japanese and Korean systems, I don't have much faith in that.

Small nuclear armed states will never have a credible deterrent because unfortunately due to their countries' small size they will always be at risk of a first strike. Chinese leaders believed they were in this position vis-a-vis the United States until about a decade and a half ago.

For example, we hear about North Korea a lot but they don't have a credible deterrent. Their stockpiles are easily destroyed in a surprise attack by a couple of JASSMs because they don't have the luxury of a large landmass like Russia and China to move their mobile launchers around.

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Re:Macron to open debate on extending French nuclear protect... by m4rtink on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @07:54PM (#43274826)

That's why you usually base nuclear missile in submarines for smaller contries, the idea being that if the country itself gets attacked, the hidden submarine will figure it out & launch the nukes while playing "god save the queen"/"sakura sakura"/"Gangam style" on the PA system. The last one possibly being a worse crime on humanity than the nukes.

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