Every Cold War attempt to reduce arsenals stumbled on USSR demands to include UK/FR deterrents in overall stockpile counts. Collectivizing planning via NATO legitimizes this viewpoint and makes Euro nuclear defense ex-US impossible, which is exactly the situation the Europeans are trying to avoid.
Reposted from Shashank Joshi
“The simplest and quickest way for France to strengthen European deterrence would be for it to join Nato’s NPG to commit its nuclear weapons to collective defence”

Is this really true, if the NPG consults in the context of US strategic forces & plans?

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