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A comparison of the nuclear strategies (or strategy preferences) of Britain, France and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) shows remarkable differences.1 Given their geographic proximity, their similar economic resources, their common enemy, their joint membership in NATO and the Western European Union (WEU), and their shared belief in democracy, this may seem surprising.
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Beatrice Heuser: NATO, Britain, France and the FRG: Nuclear Strategies and Forces in Europe, 1949–2000 (London: Macmillan, 1997).
Vladimir Iljich Lenin: ‘War and Revolution’, in On War, Army and Science of War (Moscow: 1957), p. 100.
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Heuser, B. (1998). Introduction: Nuclear Mentalities — Meaning What?. In: Nuclear Mentalities? Strategies and Beliefs in Britain, France and the FRG. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230377752_1
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