Exactly 40 years ago, a Greenpeace ship called the Rainbow Warrior was bombed in New Zealand, killing a photographer on board ...

Israel's nuclear program remains one of the world’s most secretive and mysterious, shrouded in decades of covert operations ...

In recent months, the viability of France's nuclear arsenal has been making headlines with talk of a French "nuclear umbrella" that might shield its allies on the European continent. In the face ...

The women of French Polynesia disproportionately bear the burden of France’s 30-year history of nuclear testing – both as victims and as caregivers. But they are also among those fighting for ...

A French parliamentary report released on Tuesday called for Paris to apologise to French Polynesia for decades of nuclear ...

The French Navy's (Marine Nationale) third Suffren-class nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN) Tourville (S637) entered ...

David Robie, the author of Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior, said at the launch that the ...

Nine countries currently either say they have nuclear weapons or are believed to possess them. The five original nuclear weapons states are the United States, Russia, China, France and the United ...

Three decades after France’s last nuclear tests, those living near the test sites still await compensation for the harms caused.

Future of the test ban treaty In January 1996, France conducted its last nuclear test by detonating a 120-kiloton bomb underground in the South Pacific.

In June 1995, French President Jacques Chirac announced that France would resume testing nuclear weapons in the South Pacific. Just weeks after being elected to office, Chirac ended a three-year ...