@Olivier5,
Olivier5 wrote:If attacked, France would use its nuclear arsenal against the US without hesitation.
Unlikely, unless the attack on France involved nukes to begin with.
Olivier5 wrote:That's precisely what those weapons are made for: to be able to tell the US and the Russians to f... off if we want to.
The reason those weapons were made is to deter a nuclear attack against France.
In that, they are successful. I did not propose nuking France.
Well, I probably wouldn't have proposed it even without the deterrence, come to think of it. But anyway, not very likely that, if France were faced with a conventional war with the US, the French government would choose to instead have a nuclear war with the US.