French Nuclear Testing

In June, President Jacques Chirac of France revealed that nuclear tests will be held at Muroa coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean. Chirac announced that eight nuclear explosions will take place in September to May 1996 with a tunnel of 1,800 to 3,000 ft under Mururoa in August. Chirac claims that these tests are necessary for future computer simulation. France has been criticized not only from environmental activists but also from political standpoint. Japan and Australia officially protested French experiments and persuaded to agree to other Asia Pacific countries.

Since the end of the Cold War, France has taken great importance on arms control and non-proliferation. The French nuclear test in the Pacific and the sinking of the Rainbow Warriors strained relations with France and its allies and South Pacific countries. France participated in the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 1992 and in 1995 supported its indefinite extension. After six final controversial nuclear tests in Muroa in the South Pacific, France signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in 1996. France has implemented moratorium on production, export and use of anti-personnel landmines and supports negotiations leading to a comprehensive ban. France plays an important role in adapting the traditional military treaty in Europe to a new strategic environment.

Since then, a number of multilateral treaties have been enacted with the aim of promoting the progress of nuclear disarmament while preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear testing. These include the Convention prohibiting nuclear weapons testing in the atmosphere, space, and water, also known as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (PTBT), the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) included. The TPNW, signed in 1996 but not yet in effect, was established for signature in 2017, but has not come into effect yet.

In 1963, the United States, the Soviet Union and the UK signed a "limited test ban treaty" which promised not to test nuclear weapons in the air, underwater or in space. The treaty permits underground testing. Many other non-nuclear-weapon states have joined the treaty after the Treaty came into effect, but two nuclear-weapon states have not yet joined: France, China deployed only two nuclear weapons in the fight against Japan in World War II I did not. The first case was the morning of August 6, 1945, the US Army Air Force launched a uranium gun device named "Little Boy" in Hiroshima City and killed 70,000 people including 20,000 Japanese combatants It happened when. And 20,000 Korean slave laborers. The accident on the second day occurred when the US Army Air Force dropped the sputtering implosion device of the code name "Fatty" in Nagasaki City after 3 days.