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Germany weighs financial support for British and French nuclear deterrents amid Europe’s shifting security debate, The Telegraph reports
Germany and Britain are discussing possible German financial support for the United Kingdom's nuclear-weapons program, with potential funding for comparable French military projects also under consideration, according to The Telegraph. Such an arrangement could let Berlin contribute to maintaining or developing Britain's submarine-based Trident force and France's sea- and air-delivered deterrent while gaining a role in European nuclear burden-sharing without building a national arsenal. The report describes exploratory talks rather than an agreed policy, and no government has announced funding levels, decision rights, legal terms, parliamentary approval, a schedule, or changes to sovereign control of either deterrent.