Book says Thatcher 'threatened to nuke Argentina' According to a book just published UK former Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher pressured her French counterpart, François Mitterrand to give her the codes to disable Argentina's French-made missiles during the Falklands war. Mitterrand said in 1982 of the Iron Lady “she's threatening to unleash an atomic weapon against Argentina if I don't provide her with the secret codes that will make the missiles we sold the Argentinians deaf and blind." The book also claims that the Channel tunnel was Mitterrand’s “revenge� against Thatcher saying “And do you know why she'll accept my tunnel? I'll flatter her shopkeeper's spirit.� Source:
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