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

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 ...

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

These included atmospheric and underground ... seek a reckoning on nuclear testing as Macron visits islands The tests remain a source of deep resentment in French Polynesia, where they are seen ...

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 ...

and they significantly differed from the characteristics of the French atmospheric nuclear tests conducted in Southern ...

While the dust itself was partly sourced from South Algeria, its radioactive signature didn't match the strength or the ...

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 ...

France is open to discussing the deployment of its country's nuclear weapons elsewhere in Europe, French President Emmanuel Macron has said. During an interview with French broadcaster TF1 ...

A bipartisan majority in Congress and President George H.W. Bush knew it in 1992 when they approved a moratorium on explosive nuclear weapons testing after decades of atmospheric and below-ground ...