they designed them, built the infrastructure and tested them.
USA, Russia, UK, PRC, France, India, Pakistan, North Korea are known for having nuclear weapon. Israel probably also owns nuclear weapon but never officialy declared it.
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The first nuclear weapon was used on Hiroshima , Japan . The first nuclear bomb test was conducted in Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945 .
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France is part of the "nuclear club" so we would assume that the most powerful weapon in France is some kind of Hydrogen bomb/warhead.
The meaning of the word nuclear weapon, is a weapon that has a nuclear warhead on it.
USA, Russia, UK, PRC, France, India, Pakistan, North Korea are known for having nuclear weapon. Israel probably also owns nuclear weapon but never officialy declared it.
France first nuclear weapon test was on February 13, 1960 and is believed to have a stockpile of around 300 operational nuclear warheads.
Number of nuclear weapons by country: Country # of nuclear weapons USA 10'300 Russia 16'000 China 410 France 350
This nuclear weapon is called an atomic bomb or a nuclear bomb
Nuclear weapon detonations
If by "bomb" you mean a conventional explosive weapon, then the nuclear weapon is more powerful.
A nuclear weapon is used to prevent being threatened by other nuclear countries. Say, for example, France got rid of all of it's nuclear weapons, tiny countries that had a nuclear weapon would be able to bully them into accepting bad deals or presurring them into not reacting when things happen. Most countries in the world would probably like to dispose of their nuclear weapons but they can not due to the fact of little countries with problems that will keep them would be able to threaten them and hold the world by it's throat.
nuclear chemicals such as plutonium
In order to answer your question, I called them and asked, but they refused to tell me. Something about they don't want their enemies to know that information.
No. LLNL even tested several Uranium-Hydride bombs in the 1950s. Even though their computer models said the devices should explode, none gave a nuclear yield. One could use the waste from the reactor as a Radiological Weapon, but the reactor itself is not useful as a weapon.