The CIA Declassified Reports on The French Nuclear Weapons Program (1959)

... program and what the American intelligence services knew about it back in 1959 through the report “ The French Nuclear Weapons Program ” (CIA/SI 47-59), as well as its consequences on stability in Europe and internationally. Why does De Gaulle’s France want to develop its own military nuclear program? Alexander Yermakov: Nuclear Deterrence or Britain and France have Dignity of their Own At the end of the Second World War, France’s military capabilities were diminished, while the Nazi occupation (1939-1945) pre-conditioned the modernization ...