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Originally Posted by Chris
Only the USA has nuclear umbrella treaties with other states. France has recently suggested it could do so, providing its arsenal as a nuclear umbrella for Nato-sans-USA, on the assumption that US intervention can’t be guaranteed, but has put nothing on paper. At present neither France nor the UK has any treaty obligation to respond to a nuclear attack on a third country with its own nuclear weapons, even under NATO art.5.
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Obligated or not, I would expect a nuclear attack on a NATO nation, even if the US did not respond ( which I doubt would be the case) to result in the other nuclear members of NATO to respond.
Otherwise…….what’s the point of NATO?