Charles de Gaulle (Great Nuclear War)

Charles de Gaulle was the President of France during the Great Nuclear War of 1962. He previously fought for the Free French Forces during the Second World War, fighting both Vichy French and Nazi German forces that occupied France.

The Great Nuclear War spared France, save for the city of Metz which was accidentally hit by a Soviet nuclear missile intended for a city over the West German border. While France had a few nuclear weapons during the 1960s, de Gaulle ordered the French military not to fire on Soviet positions along the Iron Curtain. This is what spared France from the destruction of the Third World War.