Nuclear power after russia and the United States. The first french atomic bomb was tested in algeria, in the Sahara Desert on february 13 , 1960. The first french mediumrange nuclear missiles, ssbs, were put on combat duty in the seventies first year, on the albion plateau in southern france. Subsequently, france abandoned the mine based system. Nuclear weapons began to be placed on submarines. Table, then a new generation of submarines appeared, inflexible. In 1964 , frances Nuclear Deterrent forces were replenished with mirage4 bombers capable of carrying nuclear bombs. Their maximum range is 4,000 km. In march 2008, president sarkozy announced a reduction in french airtoground Nuclear Weapons by a third. After the reduction of the Nuclear Arsenal of paris. Has about 300 warheads. Nuclear equipped supersonic cruise missiles are currently carried by rafale aircraft, both groundbased and based on the deck of the Aircraft Carrier charles degaulle, and four trumphant Nuclear Submarines e
For coming out this morning. Thanks to georgetown university. I hope the rest of the day goes well. Thank you. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2024] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [applause] welcome. Thank you very much. When mark twain, who was the remount humerus and essayist renowned humorist and essayist, was asked about his rumored failing health, he famously answered reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated, and i think nato can empathize with twains reaction, because overall, over the past 75 years, nato has had to navigate many serious tensions among its members. Some of these are rooted in differences inside nato, about a nuclear strategy, the alliance structure, its operations, and others flowed from disagreements over policies of, or by one or more allies, outside, on issues outside of natos purview. Just to give you a flavor of so
Its a pleasure to be here and having a chance to delve into the issues explored a little bit in the first panel now will get a bit more into defense. Elsa to stage and in short each of our panelists. The consensus on the appropriate size and strategy for equitable sharing and strategic risks has been an enduring talent and realization of nato deterrence of defense policy to be heard already. It became clear ambitions goals set at the 1952 meeting that was never going to be achieved so nato shifted to greater reliance on Nuclear Defense on u. S. Strategic forces and moving to retaliation in the 50s which envisioned or sustained conventional forces preserving ambiguity. We heard in the first panel strong opposition in many countries to the 1979 decision deploying Nuclear Weapons in europe for new capabilities and strengthened u. S. Strategic deterrence to improve capabilities nato launched Longterm Defense Program 1979 to mitigate negative shifts but the soviet union exporting emerging t
Charter communications supports cspan as a Public Service along with these other Television Providers giving you a frontrow seat to democracy. Remarks now from the u. S. Ambassador to nato, Julianne Smith. She and Foreign Policy analysts are commemorating the 75th anniversary of nato at Georgetown University. Live coverage on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] all righty. Welcome to the nato 75 charting a new course conference. Posted by the Georgian Center for Security Studies and sponsored by the institute for the studies diplomacy, the bmw seven for german and European Studies, and the European Center for International Affairs. Our program and will begin shortly. Please take a moment silence any cell phones and a reminder we follow georgian universities
To rehang by ngor his supporters now hes demanding that the president of ukraine step down well hear more from the man himself coming up in an exclusive interview plus u. S. Friends and Donald Trump Tells Palestinian Leader Mahmoud Abbas he will move the u. S. Embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem its a move arab nations say could trigger on rest to bring you a reaction from jerusalem. And that move comes as Donald Trumps time is to russia face fresh scrutiny u. S. Investigator Robert Muller is demanding droit your bank release data on accounts held live president truong as part of his role into russian ally sion meddling. Also on the show the shape of europe to come German Foreign ministers ignore gabrial urges the continent to be less dependent on the United States he says its time for europe to be more assertive in the world. And the International Olympic committee is set to announce whether it will ban russia from the winter games carry their decision lawyer plus analysis. Thanks for