OOC: The title should have a 'DBWI:' in it, but I can't edit it in, and only noticed after I posted. Also, note that OTL, Avord has an airbase nearby, with nuclear weapons, hence why I chose that particular city.
IC: Its been about fourty years since the founding of the Fifth French Republic, and a couple of years longer since the Third French Empire surrendered, following the destruction, by a 47 kiloton nuclear device, of the city of Avord, in central France.
Was it truly necessary? Could the Third Empire's attempt to forcefully unite Western Europe under the House of Bonaparte have been stopped without the use of a nuclear weapon?