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Mitterrand also endorsed plans to modernize the other two pillars of France's nuclear force de frappe, bombers and missiles. The plans call for equipping the country's 35 Mirage IV strategic bombers with air-to-ground missiles and studying a new, possibly mobile system for protecting its...
If jelly-bean ice cream had existed in the first quarter of the century, soda jerks would have translated it into cocky fountain lingo. Dickson has compiled a marvelous glossary of such wise-guy locutions, including "Hoboken special," which for some reason signified a pineapple soda with chocolate ice cream...
Not everyone in France has unquestioning faith in the country's nuclear deterrent, La force de frappe. Restaurateur Philippe Deur, 24, has converted the 17th century stone cellar of his establishment, Chéz Gregory, in Arcey not far from the Swiss border, into a bomb shelter that even...
For its part, Washington is pleased not only with Britain's apparent choice of Trident but also with the French decision to upgrade its force de frappe. "Independently of whatever the French doctrine may be," notes Gregory Flynn, a U.S. strategic expert at the Paris-based Atlantic Institute, "the...
Kissinger's warning, which he later conceded might have been more floridly gloomy than he intended it to be, also contained a surprising personal admission: America's longstanding deterrent strategy based on all-out nuclear strike capability against Soviet population centers may have been ill-conceived in the...