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French Membership of NATO

France · Warfare / Nuclear. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1967

Charles Andre Marie Joseph de Gaulle1967

Warfare / Nuclear

France bans the stationing of foreign nuclear weapons on French soil. This caused the United States to transfer two hundred military aircraft out of France and return control of the air force bases that had operated in France since 1950 to the French by 1967

Names involved

Charles Andre Marie Joseph de Gaulle

Provenance

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