Letter to Emmanuel Macron about the nuclear threat Paris, 3 May 2017
Monsieur le Président,
You have not yet been elected President of the Republic, but if you are in the evening of 7 May, we ask what you intend to do to protect France and the French people from the gravest threat: the nuclear danger. The reason why we are putting this question shortly before the second round of the presidential election is that you did not answer the three questions we sent to you and to other candidates in December 2016 :
1. Do you want France to negotiate and ratify (...)
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For 70 years, the atomic scientists have (...)
