xJones wrote: (They are a nuclear power. They have nuclear weapons but I dont know what kind of delivery systems they have.) Nuclear weapons age. Inspectors in Russia found that many of their vaunted nukes had gone past their shelf life, so to speak.
I have read that the French need American expertise to keep their nukes in good repair.
I don't know it that is so or not.
43 posted on 11/28/2004 10:49:05 PM PST by quidnunc
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