Letter from Geoffroy Chodron de Courcel to Maurice Couve de Murville on the question of setting levels of stocks of French nuclear weapons (3 October 1962)

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On 3 October 1962, Geoffroy Chodron de Courcel, French Ambassador to the United Kingdom, sends a letter to French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville in which he refers to the joint meeting between the Council of Western European Union (WEU) and the WEU Assembly’s Committee on Defence Questions, held on 28 September 1962. Geoffroy Chodron de Courcel particularly comments on the lengthy debates over controls on production and the setting of levels of stocks of nuclear weapons in France. Given the increasing reluctance of other WEU Member States, he proposes the immediate adoption of another line of argument to justify France’s deferment of the application of Article III of the Treaty of Brussels, with an emphasis on the fact that this article is discriminatory towards France.

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Source: L'ambassadeur de France en Grande-Bretagne à son Excellence monsieur Couve de Murville, ministre des Affaires étrangères. Direction politique. Service des Pactes. A.S. Réunion commune du Conseil et de la Commission des questions de défense de l'Assemblée de l'UEO. Problème de la fixation du niveau des stocks d'armes atomiques en France: 3 octobre 1962, N°1322 PAN. 5 p.

Ministère des Affaires étrangères. Centre des Archives diplomatiques de Nantes. Archives rapatriées de l'ambassade de France à Londres. Série «Union de l'Europe occidentale (UEO)». 1953-1992 (2002). 378PO/UEO/1-389. 1960-1970. Numéro 24. Cote EU.40.6.1.E. Armes atomiques. 1960-1970.

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