FOIA
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
Document Type:
Collection:
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
0000962865
Release Decision:
RIPPUB
Original Classification:
U
Document Page Count:
3
Document Creation Date:
June 22, 2015
Document Release Date:
December 3, 2009
Sequence Number:
Case Number:
F-2003-00569
Publication Date:
January 15, 1976
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FRANCE
France is ready to equip one of its three operational ballistic' missile submarines
with the'cbuntry's first megaton' thermonuclear war" :ad, Defense Minister Bourges
announced on Tuesday:
our
the new
nmarly-to
newsmen France's,other operation-ss- a su ave
warhead;by the end of the year.
The .Redoutable, which has just re-entered service after completing a 15-month
whose
table
d
R
,
ou
e
overhaul, probably will be the first to receive the warhead. The
had been scheduled to carry some of the
arheads
n
kil
t
,
w
c
o
16 missiles now have 450-
new S-'m aeon warheads when itlre-entered sere'
In zany; case, It is unlikely that any quhnIan will have a full load o t e
warheads before the end of this year.
,. M. 64 "'---,I:! w fir v
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