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Norway Has Joined the French Nuclear Club. And About Time.
For decades, the polite fiction of European security went something like this: America provides the nuclear umbrella.
Well. Norway has just kicked that fiction into the fjord.
Jonas Gahr Støre and his defense minister Tore O. Sandvik flew to Paris today and formally accepted France’s invitation to join a nuclear weapons cooperation framework.
This is extraordinary. Norway, a country better known for salmon, sovereign wealth funds and a constitutional allergy to conflict, has just signed up to sit at the adult table of nuclear strategy. The Vikings are back, and this time they brought Charles de Gaulle.
Washington’s imperial project, built on seven decades of forward deployment, treaty commitments and the implicit promise that an attack on Tallinn is an attack on Texas, is visibly fraying.
The Europeans have watched this happen and drawn the only logical conclusion available to sentient adults: if you want security, you need to build it yourself.
Norway joining this framework is not just symbolically significant. It is a formal signal that a Nordic country with deep NATO roots, a border with Russia and no prior interest in nuclear arrangements has decided that French deterrence is a serious proposition worth serious engagement.
When Oslo moves, others will notice.
The White House, watching its carefully constructed European empire rearrange itself without asking, must be having a deeply unpleasant morning.
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Norway will come under France’s nuclear umbrella
Norway will come under France’s nuclear umbrella, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere told news agency NTB on Wednesday, as concerns grow in Europe over U.S. commitment to the region’s security.
The move by Norway is significant as it has long been a so-called Atlanticist nation, one which believed its security was best achieved via close alignment with Washington.
Stoere travelled to Paris on Wednesday afternoon to meet President Emmanuel Macron and sign a new defence agreement with France, which includes Norway joining a French-led nuclear weapons initiative.
“We are doing this in light of the security policy situation in Europe, including Russia’s massive rearmament, also in the nuclear domain, and that it is waging a full-scale war against another European country,” Stoere told Norwegian news agency NTB.
No nuclear weapons will be deployed in Norway in peacetime, he added.
The Nordic nation of 5.6 million inhabitants is a member of NATO, but not of the European Union, and shares a border with Russia in the Arctic.
In March, France offered to extend the protection of its nuclear umbrella to other European countries which, in practice, means that an attack on Norway could trigger a French nuclear response.
Norway becomes the latest country to receive France’s nuclear protection, after Poland and Lithuania, which also share borders with Russia.
Russia and the U.S. are the world’s biggest nuclear powers, with over 5,000 nuclear warheads each. China has about 500, France has 290 and Britain 225, according to the Federation of American Scientists.