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

... consider new action against France” [ 16 ] The French program appears to be more expensive than that of the UK, as another CIA report shows [ 17 ], and the environmental consequences were also problematic. In 2013, the French Ministry of Armed Forces ... ... closer to NATO, thus burying any possibility of a European Defense Community. Internationally, the US Army criticized the French nuclear program because it suggested that other countries could follow the example set by France. According to Lieutenant-Colonel Warner Farr in a report to the USAF Counterproliferation Center, “Progress in nuclear science and technology in France and Israel remained closely linked throughout ...