France has muttered about making its nukes available to other European countries. France also has the world’s largest nuclear reprocessing plant, and actually burns plutonium in its reactors (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcoule_Nuclear_Site), so is in a good position to produce more warheads quickly, if required.
> Less symbolically, Poland has a Section 123 treaty agreement with the United States[1], which obligates nonproliferation and is tied to literally tens of billions[2] in ongoing commercial nuclear power investments.
> something that'd be stupidly expensive with the amount of nuclear reactors Poland is currently buying from the USA
Those are now not due to start til _2040_, so I’d be surprised if much money has changed hands yet. Other nuclear vendors are available (notably, again, France).
Like, this is all obviously very extreme stuff, but if we are seeing a US re-alignment towards Russia, which, well, is kind of how things are looking, then, y’know, it’s an extreme situation.
> Less symbolically, Poland has a Section 123 treaty agreement with the United States[1], which obligates nonproliferation and is tied to literally tens of billions[2] in ongoing commercial nuclear power investments.
I mean, Poland has another treaty with the US (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Treaty), but, y’know…
> something that'd be stupidly expensive with the amount of nuclear reactors Poland is currently buying from the USA
Those are now not due to start til _2040_, so I’d be surprised if much money has changed hands yet. Other nuclear vendors are available (notably, again, France).
Like, this is all obviously very extreme stuff, but if we are seeing a US re-alignment towards Russia, which, well, is kind of how things are looking, then, y’know, it’s an extreme situation.