Andrzej Duda, President of Poland
Polish President Andrzej Duda says his country should seek protection from French French nuclear “nuclear umbrella” against France against a potential Russian threat-while appealing to access to US atomic weapons.
French nuclear arsenal could help protect Polandsaid President Polaco Andrzej Duda This Friday, in an interview with, in Warsaw.
The Polish head of state, who prior to Poland to receive Some of the nuclear weapons of the United States in its territory to prevent any Russian aggression, considers that the French warheads could also reinforce the Polish defenses.
“I believe that We can accept both solutions“These two ideas are neither contradictory nor mutually exclusive,” says Duda.
The Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in March declared in the country’s parliament that Poland may have access to nuclear weaponsand said it was in “Serious conversations” About the French President’s proposal to use Paris’s nuclear abilities to defend the European allies.
Paris and Warsaw are currently Finish a bilateral treaty that will cover defense, nuclear energy and scientific cooperationamong other issues, according to one of the French president at X last week after a telephone conversation with Tusk.
Emmanuel Macron I had previously suggested the idea of extending the call France’s nuclear umbrella to its European allies, in the face of fears that a Aggressive Russia can one day turn your attention from Ukraine, which invaded in 2014 and again in 2022, for the Eastern Flanx of the European Union.
Poland and Denmark have already expressed openness to the idea of sheltering under the French nuclear protection. With an arsenal of about 300 Ogivas nuclear, a France is the only member country of the EU to have such weapons and one of the three NATO members, along with the USA (5,044 warheads) and the United Kingdom (225).
Beyond these three countries, the Powers with nuclear arsenals officially recognized are the Russia (5,580), China (500), India (172), Pakistan (170) and North Korea (50).
Israelwhich maintains a “strategic ambiguity” policy, has never officially confirmed it, but it is widely accepted that it has nuclear weapons, and it is estimated to have it in its arsenal 90 Ogivas.
These nine countries together hold about 12,100 nuclear warheads. Russia and the United States have about 90% of this total.
Common 200,000 men, currently the largest EUWarsaw Drastically increased their armed forces conventional in recent years, and expects to build a Half Million Army of men in the next.
