France would only nuke targets not hit by the US, USSR, UK, or PRC. That's just a tautology. If one looks at the US, USSR, UK, and Canada target lists, the pattern seems to be predominantly command centers, refineries, industrial centers, a military facilities. Mines, like for Chilean copper, aren't very useful without an industrial center to use the copper. Ditto diamonds, since in the absence of a markets for jewelry the only other applications for diamonds are industrial. A single nuke can hit a single mine. A single nuke destroying a single city can render the productivity of whole industries inert. This is why the surgical exchange focused on EMP and refineries: they are the key stones of a modern industrial society.
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"We're not innovating. We're selectively imitating." June Bernstein, Acting President of the University of Arizona in Tucson, November 15, 1998.
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