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  France defends right to nuclear reply to terrorism
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News DateFriday, January 20, 2006 10:50:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionFrance said on Thursday it would be ready to use nuclear weapons against any state that carried out a terrorist attack against it, reaffirming the need for its nuclear deterrent.

Deflecting criticism of France's costly nuclear arms program, President Jacques Chirac said security came at a price and France must be able to hit back hard at a hostile state's centers of power and its "capacity to act."

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