NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

Document Type:

FOIA [1]

Keywords:

CIA FININTEL 1965-1985 [2]

BALLISTIC MISSILE OR SPACE [3]

PROGRAMS OF FRANCE [4]

Collection:

FOIA Collection [5]

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

File:

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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 R . e:f~ I E