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To many in Europe, Trump has punched holes in NATO’s nuclear umbrella

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Some European leaders are looking to bolster their common defense under a British or French nuclear umbrella.

France has 290 nuclear warheads, the UK 225 of the US -designed Trident missiles.

The US , “can use what we call a graduated response,” Pincé said, to perhaps deliver a single strike instead of unleashing its entire arsenal.

French President Macron says the decision to launch a nuclear strike “has always remained and will remain” in his hands.

Boosting Europe’s nuclear arsenal would be a “question of years , if not decades,” of investment and development, says Lukasz Kulesa .

The UK military has been “very active in terms of increasing the nuclear deterrence IQ at NATO ”.