Macron, Putin: two dangerous men, two nuclear dictatorships The atom bombs have gone to their heads
Published in French on 27 March 2023
PHOTO French President Macron and Russian President Putin in Moscow on 7 February 2022 — Thibault Camus/AP/SIPA
Nuclear Dictatorships
There are many differences between them, yet they share one key feature: they think they are all-powerful. In truth they can at any moment annihilate millions of people. With no authorisation. And once the crime has been committed, they would not have to answer to anyone. They flout international law, the UN Charter, (...)
French Extreme Right-wing Party wants to "inscribe Nuclear Deterrence into the Marble of the Constitution"
Published in French on 11 February 2023
The group of 88 MPs of the RN party [the Rassemblement National, led by Marine Le Pen] has just presented a "CONSTITUTIONAL BILL aimed at protecting and guaranteeing the strength of France’s nuclear deterrence". This was presented to the Presidency of the National Assembly, and registered on 9 February 2023.
According to this Bill, nuclear deterrence "the fruit of General de Gaulle’s wish to construct and consolidate France’s independence and (...)
International Day for the total elimination of nuclear weapons Seven out of ten French citizens want to abolish nuclear and radioactive weapons and wish a referendum on the subject According to an IFOP Poll of 20-21 September 2022
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FROM IFOP, 22 SEPTEMBER 2022 REPORT ON PUBLIC OPINION POLL
Concerning the wish that France should negotiate a treaty to ban and completely eliminate nuclear and radioactive weapons
Text preceding Question 1:
Today there are nearly 13000 atom bombs threatening life on earth. According to the UN, any State that uses them "must be considered as violating the UN Charter, acting in contempt of the laws of humanity and committing a crime against Humanity and civilization" (...)
