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Quint (international coalition)
Coalition of US, UK, France, Germany, Italy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Quint is an informal decision-making group consisting of the United States and the Big Four of Western Europe (France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom).[1][2] All the countries forming it are allies and members of NATO, the OECD and the G7/G20.[3][4][5][6]
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The United States, France and the United Kingdom are nuclear-weapon states, while Germany and Italy are part of the nuclear weapons sharing program.