The author freely admits that there is no way to back up his claims of what Mitterrand apparently said.
The Timesonline claims that there were British nuclear weapons in the warzone. They also state that two years after the war, the Labour Party demanded an inquiry into a report that the Royal Navy had sent a submarine armed with nuclear missiles to Ascension Island, the staging ground for Britain’s naval task force, to be on standby for a nuclear attack on the Argentine city of Cordoba if the war went badly. However, British admirals deny the report.
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Article comments
1 - Kevin
If this allegation is true why did the British PM not use this threat from the start? It would have saved many British lives.
2 - Death of a salesman
yes.
only metal..? what a BORE!!
3 - kane
What a load of shit
4 - Manuel
Britain claimed the Falklands 51 years before Argentina even existed! The Argies need to renounce their ill-founded claim, give the stolen Paraguayan lands back, grow up and stop indoctrinating the people with lies.
5 - marcos
u must to remember 51 years was the king of spain whos exist. and for internationat right it's ours ..... and paraguay and uruguay was ours completly like a south of brasil but ours f..... govermen sales thas's land s
6 - Joe Guzman
She was nuts and show that the Monroe doctrine was only to favor the Anglos, The Brits care more for the Falklands than their own island that is beign taken over by Pakis
7 - Christopher Rose
Thatcher was pretty bad news for the UK in many ways, far more in retrospect than it seemed at the time.
That said, she was no nuttier than people like Joe Guzman (an Argentinian, perhaps?) if he means his comment seriously.