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France's aversion to the idea of eliminating all nuclear arsenals

France is openly very skeptical about the notion of a full elimination of nuclear weapons, which it sees as a very distant idealistic goal. France welcomes the US-Russia arsenal reductions, but favors a wait-and-see attitude regarding how far they will go.

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France's aversion to the idea of eliminating all nuclear arsenals
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France sees no link between NWS disarmament and non-proliferation
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NPT nuclear weapon states won't disarm completely
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1992: stopped plutonium production for nuclear weapons
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1996: stopped production of highly enriched uranium
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1998: ratified CTBT
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2008: 33% reduction of airborne component of nuclear deterrence force
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25 CTBT monitoring stations set up by French Atomic Energy Commission
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Dismantlement of former facilities producing fissile material
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Published amount of its entire nuclear arsenal (300) in 2008
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"Force de Frappe" deters all external threats, including terrorism
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Massive modernizing of French nuclear arsenal launched in the mid 90's
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