Nuclear Abolition News | FPIF
By JEANNE KAY*
WASHINGTON DC - Only a few weeks after Francois Hollande's election, former Socialist Prime Minister Michel Rocard came up with an original budget-balancing solution: if France chose to relinquish its nuclear arsenal, he argued, “16 billion euros that serve absolutely no purpose” could be saved over five years.
Apparently unimpressed, Minister of Defense Jean-Yves Le Drian immediately retorted that the nuclear bomb was essential to the nation's security: “We won't be miserly about our life-insurance,” he declared.