Three atomic bombs were detonated on the Montebello Islands in the 1950s. Scientists say they've now precisely measured how ...

France conducted nearly 200 nuclear tests in the South Pacific during the 20th century. Tahitians in the diaspora have been ...

In recent months, the viability of France's nuclear arsenal has been making headlines with talk of a French "nuclear umbrella ...

It was here that France became a nuclear power, detonating 193 bombs between 1966 and 1996. Forty-six of these were atmospheric ... testing policy and led by MP Didier le Gac and French Polynesia ...

“Johnston already has an unfortunate legacy of failed rocket launches in the 60s as part of atmospheric nuclear testing that left ... of obsolete chemical weapons filled with deadly mustard ...

Buildner has announced the results of its competition, the Last Nuclear ... testing site. The conceptual memorial is intended to reflect the history and ongoing threat of nuclear weapons, aiming ...

to open all French archives related to nuclear testing, to improve compensation to nuclear test victims and to clean up remaining pollution. Philippe, a member of the Scientific Advisory Group of the ...

Eisenhower proffered limits on both atmospheric and underground nuclear weapons testing. Soviet leaders objected to proposed onsite inspections, and the American military, industrial and ...

Since the end of testing, the world seems to have taken a slow, calming exhale. Global nuclear weapons tallies shrunk ... to 828 underground tests, 100 atmospheric tests were performed there, ...

The WC-135R atmospheric collection ... mission supports the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963, which prohibits any nation from above ground nuclear weapons testing," the U.S. Air Force ...

Their first campaign was a mission to block U.S. nuclear weapons tests on Amchitka ... That ship was protesting French nuclear testing in the Pacific in 1985 when it was bombed by agents for ...