On 5 March 2025, President Macron announced that he had "decided to open the strategic debate about using our (nuclear) deterrence to protect our allies on the European continent".
Officially, if an enemy attacks France’s "vital interests", our deterrence consists of threatening to send him first a "final warning" through a nuclear strike that would be, on principle, limited, and after that, if he continues his aggression, to deliver massive strikes on his cities.
That French first nuclear (...)

Action des citoyens pour le désarmement nucléaire (ACDN) salutes the election of Pope Leo XIV and rejoices that he began his first speech by calling for a "peace without weapons, a peace disarming" in a world which greatly needs this.
The origins, the personality and the rich experience of Robert Francis Prevost allow us to think that he will be able to use the Catholic Church, "a Church that progresses and seeks for peace and charity", in the service of peace between peoples and solidarity (...)

Media Release ACDN, 21 April 2025
The death of Pope Francis is a loss not only for the Catholics but also for all humankind. Setting aside some regrets one could have on certain points, we can call him a fundamentally good man, full of humour, of a great simplicity - a man close to the poor, to the oppressed, to the many victims of social injustice, international violence, and war - a man distant from the powerful and their obsessions, concerned for peace and fraternity, preoccupied by (...)