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for dissuasion, the French term for deterrence. Following the end of the Cold War, France decommissioned all its land-based nuclear missiles, thus the...

Country overview: France (from the Nuclear Threat Initiative) Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Nuclear Notebook: French nuclear forces, 2008, September/October...

The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty) was an arms control treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union (and its successor...

The French Armed Forces (French: Forces armées françaises) are the military forces of France. They consist of four military branches – the Army, the Navy...

Submarine Forces of France (French: Forces Sous-Marines, FSM) are one of the four main components of the French Navy. The force oversees all French submarines...

detonation of nuclear weapons. Five are considered to be nuclear-weapon states (NWS) under the terms of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons...

reactors. EDF is fully owned by the French Government. Nuclear power was introduced in large quantities in France following the 1973 oil crisis according...

after World War II. The establishment of the French Nuclear Deterrence Force was based on a French nuclear testing program that began on February 13, 1960...

Strategic Rocket Forces was created on 17 December 1959 as part of the Soviet Armed Forces as the main force for operating all Soviet nuclear ground-based...

relating to nuclear and to the integration of the armed forces of member countries within a unified command. De Gaulle drew his conclusions and France left the...

of France, officially the president of the French Republic (French: Président de la République française), is the executive head of state of France, and...

A tactical nuclear weapon (TNW) or non-strategic nuclear weapon (NSNW) is a nuclear weapon that is designed to be used on a battlefield in military situations...

action force) and the 9 submarines of the Forces sous-marines (Submarine force). Primary assets include one nuclear aircraft carrier, three amphibious assault...

bombers with nuclear bombs and missiles. Countries build nuclear triads to eliminate an enemy's ability to destroy a nation's nuclear forces in a first-strike...

the French Submarine Forces. France also builds Scorpène-class submarines for international buyers; the Brazilian submarine Álvaro Alberto, a nuclear-powered...

people, French culture, the French government or the Francophonie (set of political entities that use French as an official language or whose French-speaking...

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission...

and French Jewish and non-Jewish researchers, the French believed that cooperation with Israel could give them access to international Jewish nuclear scientists...

a French submarine-launched ballistic missile, built by ArianeGroup, and deployed with the French Navy. Designed to replace the M45 SLBM (In French terminology...

"United Kingdom Nuclear Forces". fas.org. "China Nuclear Forces". fas.org. "France Nuclear Forces". fas.org. A toxic legacy: British nuclear weapons testing...