Mitterand pledges to add to French nuclear arsenal

By Compiled From Wire Service Dispatches With Analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around The World; Edited By Anne Shutt

July 15, 1982

Paris

President Francois Mitterrand, celebrating the 193rd anniversary of the capture of the Bastille, pledged to expand France's nuclear arsenal.

The French President said his country's nuclear armaments will be modernized and conventional forces maintained.