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To: goresalooza
I always wondered why France, so "pacifist and so forgiving and understanding and anti-war" would require nukes.

France is a bit ahead of the rest of the world with its deployment of "nukes", aka nuclear power plants. They saw through the "Split wood, Not atoms" scam a long time ago.

97 posted on 11/04/2005 5:12:02 AM PST by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† || (To Libs:) You are failing to celebrate MY diversity! || Iran Azadi)
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To: sionnsar

"France is a bit ahead of the rest of the world with its deployment of "nukes", aka nuclear power plants"

Perhaps you should do a bit of light reading. Go back to Oct 1995 (google French Tahiti nuke) and find out that France INDEED posesses nuclear weapons, not simply nuclear power plants.

From Infoplease.com:

Countries with Nuclear Weapons Capability--->

Acknowledged: Britain, China, France, India, Pakistan, Russia, United States

Unacknowledged: Israel

Seeking: North Korea,1 Iran2

Abandoned: South Africa—Constructed but then voluntarily dismantled six uranium bombs. Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine—When Soviet Union broke up, these former states possessed nuclear warheads that they have since given up.

Anytime you hear the often-used term, "nukes"..it means nuclear weapons.


104 posted on 11/04/2005 5:33:49 AM PST by goresalooza (Nurses Rock!)
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