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French lawmakers are considering launching a probe into the impact of the country's nuclear weapons tests in French Polynesia over three decades. From the 1960s to the 1990s, France detonated almost 200 nuclear bombs in French Polynesia – a scattered Pacific island territory thousands of kilometres east of Australia – including 41 atmospheric tests between 1966 and 1974.The largely communist GDR group in France's National Assembly has made a written request for an investigation, stating: "We nee

Russia's segment of the international network that monitors for signs of nuclear weapons tests will be completed this year, the defence ministry said on Friday. The International Monitoring System was set up under the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) to detect seismic shocks or radioactivity resulting from any weapons test involving a nuclear explosion. Russia says it will remain a part of this network despite withdrawing its ratification of the CTBT, a move that President Vladimir Putin signed into law on Nov. 2.

At the direction of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russia is moving to undo its ratification of the 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) that prohibits all nuclear weapons tests. This represents another step in the Kremlin’s effort to try to punish the United States and the West for their support of Ukraine following Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. Since then, 187 countries have signed the treaty, including the United States and Russia.

Bavarian wild boars have remained radioactive despite levels of contaminants falling in other species. Scientists have now discovered the reason for this — truffles contaminated by the fallout from Cold War nuclear weapons tests.

Test launches ensure America’s land-based nuclear missiles are still viable after more than 50 years.