The third installment is "Adieu: Why France Left"
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Specifically, on February 21, 1966, French President Charles de Gaulle announced that France was withdrawing from the military component of NATO
iht-retrospective.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/22/196…
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Then 🇺🇸Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara referred to French nuclear forces as, "dangerous, expensive, prone to obsolescence and lacking in credibility."
Fun fact: He gave those remarks during the 1962 @UMich commencement address
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France could provide it's own nuclear deterrent, thank you very much!!
Of course, a beneficiary of that decision was Université Paris-Dauphine, which took over the old @NATO building in Paris
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dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…