Gerboise Verte (French pronunciation: [ʒɛʁbwaz vɛʁt]; lit. 'Green Jerboa') is the codename for a French nuclear test conducted on 25 April 1961. The test...
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deliberately reduced to less than 5 kilotons. Shortly after the final Gerboise bomb (Gerboise Verte), the French moved their nuclear testing to the mountainous...
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Gerboise Rouge (French pronunciation: [ʒɛʁbwaz ʁuʒ]; lit. 'Red Jerboa') is the codename for a French nuclear test conducted on 27 December 1960 in Reggane...
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as the Algerian war of independence and the first French nuclear test, Gerboise Bleue). Arte's president of fiction, Olivier Wotling, confirmed a second...
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explosion of the atomic bomb Gerboise Verte (lit. "green jerboa") in the Sahara as part of a scheduled testing program. Gerboise Verte exploded at 6:05 am. While...
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French). Retrieved 10 August 2020. Billaud, Pierre (1989). "L'opération GERBOISE VERTE (engin R1, 25 avril 1961)" (in French). Retrieved 10 August 2020. 61...
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was chosen, to ensure that the tower would be completely destroyed. Gerboise Verte The nuclear test should have had a power of between 6 and 18 kt, but...
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French Senate report ^ ^ ^ ^ Jump up to: a b c d Essais nucléaires : Gerboise verte, la bombe et le scoop qui font plouf... (actualisé), Jean-Dominique...
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français". Capcomespace.net. Retrieved 2010-09-04. Essais nucléaires : Gerboise verte, la bombe et le scoop qui font plouf... (actualisé) Archived 2014-11-29...
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(CEMO), was chosen for France's initial bomb tests. The fourth bomb Gerboise Verte had to be scuttled so it would not be confiscated by the Algerian regime...
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"Algiers putsch"), the French government ordered the detonation of the Gerboise verte on April 25, 1961, to prevent the nuclear device from falling into the...
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(<1 mSv) Data provided by the French Defense Ministry in January 2007. Gerboise Bleue (French first atmospheric A-bomb) Canopus (French first atmospheric...
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