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Better beg france to share nuclear tech. There likely isn't enough time to do it from scratch.
France should simply offer select participation in their nuclear program, by way of buying in to maintenance and development, and some staffing on their submarines.
Germany, Poland, Benelux, the Nordics, Spain and Italy would likely join.
A couple more SSBNs with English speaking staffing running under French procedure would work.
But the thorny challenge is to determine who determines when the button is pressed. Extremely clear simple rules, such as “If any member states are attacked with nuclear weapons, the attacker is counter attacked with nukes”. It would be impossible to have a “when the survival of a state is threatened” like individual nuclear states do.