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I was surprised to read that in Europe, the closest country to have nuclear weapons are the Netherlands (if they wanted to)

https://politics.stackexchange.com/q/90870/11473



Do you mean as a new development? Because France (and the UK) already had them for a while. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_...


Yes, new development.

When Trump dumped his support for NATO in Europe, everyone was looking at France to shield them and deter attacks. I was wondering if other EU countries were reasonably close to building a bomb and I found this question.


The Netherlands has US nukes: https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vliegbasis_Volkel

Apparently also Belgium , Italy, Turkey, Germany have the same type.


Yes, but these are US nukes, under complete US control. US decides when and where to use them. In other words, these countries are launch sites for the US army.

What I had in mind are nukes under the jurisdiction of a country (such as France or UK in Europe)




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