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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No.

Never has any country given another one of their nuclear weapons. Some have gone so far as to lend nuclear engineers to friendly countries... but never an actual weapon. You don't give another country the magic bullet to shoot you dead, OP. [/quote]

In reality the US supplied the UK with nuclear weapons. The UK initiated a nuclear weapons programme, codenamed Tube Alloys, during the Second World War. At the Quebec Conference in August 1943, it was merged with the American Manhattan Project. In the 1950’s US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement was signed and the US armed the UK with nuclear weapons.

Also  NATO member(Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey) and the US share nuclear weapons. France and Israel shared research in the 1950-60 with the US providing technology aid to France in the 1970’s. It is fairly easy to build a one off bomb but making it a practical weapon is a lot harder. Both France and Israel would not have been able to make a practical weapon with a delivered system without the US.

Also the Soviets stole US nuclear technology. [b]Basically the US either supplied nuclear weapons or gave the technology to make nuclear weapons to UK, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Turkey and Soviet(not willingl[/b]y). 
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Which the US obtained from German scientists.[/quote]

No. The US did not obtain it from the German. The German nuclear program was way behind the US at ever stage. [/quote]

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