Although the scale of France's nuclear arsenal is far less than that of the United States and Russia, throughout the Cold War, France adhered to an independent strategic defense policy, and established a three-in-one nuclear strike and nuclear counterattack force, thus gaining the status of a nuclear power.

It's just that France was the first to eliminate land-based nuclear forces.

After the end of the Cold War, France retired dozens of intermediate-range ballistic missiles, and no longer let the army undertake the task of strategic nuclear strikes and nuclear counterattacks.

Still, France retains enough tactical nuclear warheads.

In fact, during the Cold War, France paid more attention to tactical nuclear warheads.

Why?

During the Cold War, not only France, but all of Europe, lived under the threat of the Soviet Union, and in turn it was dominated by the armored forces of the Soviet Red Army.

You know, during the Cold War, the Soviet Union deployed tens of thousands of main battle tanks in Eastern Europe alone.

Although it turned out that most of these tanks were useless, the huge number of them put extremely great pressure on Western European countries.

At that time, no one believed that it would be possible to resist the Soviet torrent of steel by conventional means.

Why?

In the face of tens of thousands of tanks, any conventional means are ornaments.

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union conducted military exercises against Europe almost every year, and they were planned to sweep across the entire region of Western Europe in a matter of days.

According to later disclosed information, the Soviet Union, at its peak, planned to advance to the English Channel in five days.

What to do with the countries of Western Europe?

In addition to strengthening forward deployment and making preparations for defense in depth, the only thing that can be pinned on is the powerful nuclear weapons.

In fact, in the Soviet Union's battle plan, after the start of the war, a nuclear assault would be launched, using tactical nuclear weapons to break down the defense line of the NATO bloc, and then the armored forces would launch an offensive to encircle and annihilate the heavy military group deployed by the NATO bloc in Western Europe through in-depth and roundabout tactics.

Obviously, nuclear weapons are also the only option for the countries of Western Europe.

Although in the NATO bloc, the United States is the absolute main force, and Britain also has nuclear weapons, in Western Europe, France obviously has a pivotal position, and what happened in the past, especially the tragic experience of the Second World War, makes it difficult for the French to believe in their allies across the Channel, so France has always adhered to an independent national defense policy and has always insisted on having its own nuclear forces.

It is against this backdrop that France has built a large arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons.

According to the information disclosed after the end of the Cold War, during the Cold War, two-thirds of France's more than 400 nuclear warheads were tactical nuclear weapons, and less than 100 nuclear warheads were used as strategic weapons that could hit Moscow, and almost all of them were deployed in advance.

How far ahead?

It was stored near the German-French border to ensure that these nuclear warheads could be used to strike the Soviet Union with a torrent of steel immediately after the outbreak of war.

At that time, France even formed a death squad dedicated to the use of tactical nuclear warheads.

It's just that after the end of the Cold War, these tactical nuclear warheads all became a burden.

France first destroyed tactical nuclear warheads, and then reduced its nuclear arsenal, abandoned the three-in-one nuclear strategy, and put all nuclear warheads on submarines.

The problem is that France has not announced the renunciation of nuclear forces.

In fact, no one can restrain France from developing tactical nuclear weapons.

As a recognized nuclear power, France has the right to develop and possess nuclear weapons, which have always been the cornerstone of France's security.

Obviously, no one dares to guarantee that France has destroyed all tactical nuclear warheads.

Even if France retains some tactical nuclear warheads, it is understandable, after all, the world is not peaceful, and after Brexit, France is the only nuclear power in the European Union, responsible for providing a nuclear umbrella for all EU countries, even if almost all EU countries do not need a French nuclear umbrella.

Why?

Almost all EU countries are members of NATO, and it is the United States that has promised to provide a nuclear umbrella.

If there is, it must be in a base, and it is a base that has existed since the Cold War and is dedicated to storing nuclear warheads.

Clearly, there is no reason for France to rebuild its base in order to preserve the few nuclear warheads that remain.

The base south of Colmar, then, is quite likely.

Fortunately, it's not far away.

Dozens of kilometers, Wang Dong and Luo Qing rushed over half an hour later.

It's just that it's still a step too late.

The men sent by Emily had already attacked the base and left before Wang Dong and Luo Qing arrived.

The French officers and men guarding the base were all killed, and some were even split in two.

The scene was extremely bloody.

It's just that none of this is a big deal.

Soon, Wang Dong and Luo Qing's worries were confirmed.

Here, indeed, there are nuclear warheads!

When searching the base, Wang Dong and Luo Qing found a stock of information, indicating that the French army had stored three tactical nuclear warheads here, and they were adjustable yield nuclear warheads, with a maximum explosive power of 200,000 tons, and one could destroy a large city with a population of one million.

3 nuclear warheads?

If placed in the right place, it is enough to destroy a megacity like Paris!

What exactly does Emily want to do?

Wang Dong is very big and worried.

Although there is enough reason to believe that Emily will not use those nuclear warheads to destroy Paris, after all, doing so will only become a public enemy of the whole world, but intuition tells Wang Dong that Emily is planning a shocking conspiracy, which has reached the stage of implementation, or is being carried out.

Belfort?

Wang Dong and Luo Qing did not delay much, and after contacting Wang Haotian and asking him to tell Nicholas that they were closely monitoring Belfort's data center through the Internet, the two left the French military base.

This time, it took the two an hour to arrive.

Luckily, it wasn't too late.

Actually, it's not that the two of them came in time, but that it's not time yet.

It's only past 8 o'clock French time, and it's still more than an hour before the Paris Stock Exchange opens, so even if Emily's men have arrived, there's not much they can do.

Wang Haotian has already mentioned that the data center will not be operational until about 15 minutes before the market opens.

At that point, Emily will have access to the raw data from Paris.

Next, just blow up the data center and destroy all the raw data.

Because the original data cannot be recovered, the data of millions of accounts will fall into Emily's hands, and she will be able to use it to make tens of trillions of euros of wealth.

In fact, until this time, Wang Dong felt that it was impossible for Emily to make so many fame for money.

The point is, at Emily's level, money doesn't mean anything at all, so there's no reason to go out of it for money.