LONDON (Dow Jones)--U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday he backed French President Jacques Chirac on nuclear threats from rogue states.
Chirac Thursday said that France, thought to have around 300 nuclear warheads mostly deployed on submarines, would weigh a non-conventional response to "state-sponsored terrorism" or attacks using weapons of mass destruction.
"I strongly endorse what (Chirac) is saying about the threat today coming from rogue states and such states that are developing in breach of internatiuonal obligations nuclear capability, and we do have to be very careful about it," Blair said at his monthly news conference.
"I think that any leader of any country today recognizes this is the nature of the threat we face and it's obviously changed in recent years."
-By Jonathan Fox, Dow Jones Newswires; +44 (0)20 78 42 9459; [email protected]
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