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

For the CIA, the success of the French nuclear program is the development of nuclear energy for the civil sector On 19 November 1959, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) published a scientific intelligence report on “ The French Nuclear Weapons Program ” (CIA/SI 47-59) analyzing the state of progress of the French research in this specific field. The secret report describes France’s capabilities in plutonium production, extraction, isotope separation and the development of nuclear weapons as...

23.04.2021

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The Korean Peninsula: Is There a Nuclear War Coming?

In early January 2016, front pages around the world carried numerous stories on Pyongyang’s hydrogen bomb test. The flurry of comments that followed the DPRK’s announcement of conducting “a hydrogen bomb test” highlighted several major issues, namely the unpredictable nature of Kim Jong-un’s regime; the unanimous condemnation of Pyongyang for the provocative act and subsequent calls for punishment; doubts as to whether the tested device was really a thermonuclear one;...

20.01.2016

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