"To be free, one must be feared. To be feared, one must be powerful," French President Emmanuel Macron said during a landmark speech this week on nuclear deterrence.

French President Emmanuel Macron just after he finished speaking Monday at a French military base. (Yoan Valat/EPA/Pool/AP) France will bring European nations into nuclear military drills and could allow its neighbors to host nuclear-capable fighter planes for the first time, President Emmanuel Macron announced Monday, as growing mistrust in the United States propels once-taboo plans for the French nuclear arsenal to protect Europe.

French President Emmanuel Macron announced France will increase its nuclear warheads and may temporarily deploy them on allied territory.