Papeete, French Polynesia ... France carried out 193 nuclear tests in the region, and 41 of those were above-ground. Above-ground – also known as atmospheric – testing is believed to ...

Nuclear weapons are scarcely mentioned in the ... Taken together, the Nevada Test Site, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, and the French testing site in Pacific Polynesia remain some of the most toxic ...

Ultimate control over the use of the weapons would also remain solely with the French president, Macron said. France held around 280 nuclear warheads in 2024, according to figures from the ...

“I will define the framework [for talks about French nuclear weapons] in a very official way in the weeks and months to come, but we have already begun things with the provisos I mentioned ...

French President Emmanuel Macron, on Tuesday (May 13, 2025), said that France was “ready to open” discussions about stationing France’s nuclear weapons in other European countries.

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that he was open to discussing the potential deployment of his country's nuclear weapons elsewhere in Europe. The comments came in an interview with ...