Examining U.S. Trade Deficits
Great Britain and France could make them nuclear powers of the first rank-and pose nearly as much of a challenge to Washington as to Moscow.
Both of these U.S. allies already maintain small nuclear forces: a combined total of 300 warheads in land- and submarine-based missiles. Moscow's installation of new SS-20 missiles targeted on Western Eu- rope and European doubts about Washington's commitment to defend the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) at all costs prompted the Anglo-French plans....