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Bookmark or Share- French Nuclear Program - Nuclear MuseumFrench atomic bombs would be operational for military use by 1964. Official French reports stated , “For the explosions at low altitude, the earth, the water, and varied debris… formed a vertical column between the sun and the sphere of gas heat which had the appearance of snow.”
- Fact Sheet: France’s Nuclear Inventory - Center for Arms Control and ...France had amassed around 540 nuclear weapons by the end of the Cold War. Since then, France has cut its nuclear arsenal in half, ceased explosive nuclear testing and eliminated its land-based missiles, deeming those systems as no longer necessary for its deterrent.
- France and weapons of mass destruction - WikipediaGerboise Rouge (5kt), the third atomic bomb, half as powerful as Little Boy, exploded on 27 December 1960, provoking protests from Japan, USSR, Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria and Ghana. [ 30 ]
- History of France's military nuclear program - WikipediaIn the 1950s, the United States tried to dissuade France from building an atomic bomb. Nevertheless, the Eisenhower administration provided technical assistance, at different levels of development, in four areas: open information,
- List of nuclear weapons tests of France - WikipediaFrance executed nuclear weapons tests in the areas of Reggane and In Ekker in Algeria and the Mururoa and Fangataufa Atolls in French Polynesia, from 13 February 1960 through 27 January 1996. These totaled 210 tests with 210 device explosions, 50 in the atmosphere. [1]
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