France/Nuclear weapons

France/Nuclear weapons
France/Nuclear weapons link; (Nuclear weapons)
	File:France nuclear test.webp The Moruroa atoll in the southern Pacific Ocean where most of the French nuclear tests took place.
	France is the only member of the European Union to possess independent (non-NATO) nuclear weapons

France is the only member of the European Union to possess non-NATO nuclear weapons. The French military is currently thought to retain a weapons stockpile of around 300 operational (deployed) nuclear warheads,^[2] making it the third-largest in the world, speaking in terms of warheads, not megatons.^[3]

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[1] ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mururoa

[2] ttps://fas.org/initiative/status-world-nuclear-forces/

[3] ttps://www.nrdc.org/stories/nuclear-power-101

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