Nuclear-armed countries increased spending on atomic weapons arsenals by a third in the past five years, according to a new report. France is just one of nine countries racing to modernise stockpiles against a backdrop of growing political tensions around the globe.
France is engaged in a "massive multi-year nuclear weapons upgrade" according to a report by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), spending €300 million more on them than the year before.
