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Originally Posted by Webstral
Many of the assumptions about the French Navy seem to be based on the idea that there is no Franco-Soviet nuclear exchange of any sort that would account for a number of French vessels.
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Not at all (at least as far as I'm concerned). I think we all understand from canon that neutral nations are caught up in the 1997 nuclear exchange. However I don't buy into the theory that all the French Naval bases were nuked. As I've stated in the past, the Soviets didn't nuke any of the major UK Naval bases (Portsmouth, Plymouth, Rosyth) during the War and the UK was an active belligerent, so using that precedent I think it's not unreasonable to assume that one or more French bases may also not have been nuked.
Be assured, I have given the idea of a potential Soviet nuclear strike on France a good degree of thought, and am quite certain French targets would have been hit (this is confirmed in the BYB quotes below), however in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, we may have to agree to disagree on the potential target list.
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Although ostensibly neutral in the War, France was still subjected to nuclear attacks to deny its port and oil refining facilities to NATO. Damage was largely confined to the coasts, but the resulting casualties were severe.
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So we know some French Ports were attacked, but not which ones.
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Marseille is the largest undamaged City, although it is in bad shape compared to its pre War condition.
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The first part of this statement doesn’t really help much, since I believe Marseille is the second largest City in France (in terms of population) after Paris, so all I infer from that is that Paris was attacked in some way. However it is also a port City, so this serves as confirmation that not every port City was nuked. To be fair, Marseille is not a French Naval Base.