Norway becomes ninth country to come under French nuclear deterrence scheme

submitted by Sepia to world 75 points | 3 comments https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260527-norway-becomes-ninth-country-to-come-under-french-nuclear-umbrella The leaders of France and Norway said on Wednesday that Oslo will join a Paris-led nuclear deterrence scheme to bolster security on the continent. … In March, [ French President Emmanuel] Macron unveiled a programme under which France, the European Union’s only nuclear-armed country, would use its atomic stockpile to boost security on the continent. Under the so-called “forward” nuclear deterrence scheme, those who join will be able to temporarily host French “strategic air forces”, which will be able to “spread out across the European continent” to “complicate the calculations of our adversaries”, Macron said at the time. … Prior to Norway, eight countries had joined the programme – Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden and fellow nuclear power the United Kingdom. … “The agreement also provides a framework for closer cooperation on hybrid warfare, maritime security, space cooperation, cybersecurity, support to Ukraine and defence industrial cooperation,” Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store said. …