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    Gerboise Bleue (French: [ʒɛʁbwaz blø]; lit. 'Blue Jerboa') was the codename of the first French nuclear test. It was conducted by the Nuclear Experiments...
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  • as an atmospheric test. This was the fourth French nuclear atmospheric test, after Gerboise Bleue, Gerboise Blanche, and Gerboise Rouge. In 1957, the...
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  • Gerboise bleue is a 2009 documentary film. Between 1960 and 1966, France carried out four atmospheric nuclear tests and another thirteen underground tests...
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  • was the 3rd French nuclear test, after Gerboise Bleue and Gerboise Blanche, completing the colors of the French flag. During this test, the army carried...
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  • January 2007. Gerboise Bleue (French first atmospheric A-bomb) Canopus (French first atmospheric H-bomb) Force de Frappe List of states with nuclear weapons...
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  • to test a hydrogen bomb provoked the People's Republic of China to conduct a full scale hydrogen bomb test of its own on 17 June 1967. Gerboise Bleue (French...
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  • Gerboise Blanche (or Opération Gerboise Blanche) was the codename of the second French nuclear test. It was conducted by the Nuclear Experiments Operational...
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    of a replacement to the current system. France tested its first nuclear weapon in 1960 ("Gerboise Bleue"), based mostly on its own research. It was motivated...
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    Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the performance of nuclear weapons and the effects of their explosion. Nuclear testing...
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    Polynesia. Often skipped in lists are the 5 safety tests at Adrar Tikertine in Algeria. Operation Gerboise bleue, February 13, 1960 (first atomic bomb) and three...
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  • "L'Opération GERBOISE BLEUE (engin M1, 13 février 1960)" (in French). Retrieved 10 August 2020. Billaud, Pierre (1989). "L'opération GERBOISE BLANCHE (engin...
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    country to maintain a nuclear triad. In February 1960, France performed its first nuclear weapons test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", meaning Blue Jerboa...
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    explosive yield of a nuclear weapon is the amount of energy released such as blast, thermal, and nuclear radiation, when that particular nuclear weapon is detonated...
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    Experiments Centre") from February 1960 until April 1961. The first, called Gerboise Bleue ("Blue jerboa") took place on 13 February 1960 in Algeria. The explosion...
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    France became the fourth nation to possess nuclear weapons on February 13, 1960, when the atomic bomb "Gerboise Bleue" was detonated in Algeria, then still...
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    future to itself." — Félix Gaillard, Gerboise bleue, February 13, 1960. France's first nuclear test, Gerboise bleue, was carried out on February 13, 1960...
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  • alert, begins. 1960 – February 13 – France successfully tests a nuclear weapon, called Gerboise Bleue, in the Sahara near Reggane, French Algeria. 1960 –...
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    AN-11 bomb (category Nuclear bombs of France)
    version was used in France's first nuclear test, Gerboise Bleue, on 13 February 1960. The first AN-11 prototype was tested 1 May 1962, and it entered service...
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    1922. On 13 February 1960, during the Algerian War, Gerboise Bleue – the first French nuclear test – detonated in the middle of the Algerian Sahara, located...
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    Soviet Union began testing hydrogen bombs) and in 2018, following the failure of world leaders to address tensions relating to nuclear weapons and climate...
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  • (such 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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    Reggane (category Nuclear test sites)
    Zaouit Reggani Taourirt Berriche Algeria portal Gerboise Bleue - France's first nuclear bomb, tested at Reggane "Population: Wilaya d'Adrar" (PDF) (in...
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    Bertrand Goldschmidt (category Nuclear history of France)
    fathers of the French atomic bomb, which was tested for the first time in 1960 in the nuclear test Gerboise Bleue. Bertrand Goldschmidt was born in Paris on...
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  • detonated its first atomic bomb, the "Gerboise bleue" as planned on February 13, 1960, at the Reggane testing site in Algeria. In July 1957, Saclay inaugurated...
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    the commercially important cacao trees. In advance of the Gerboise Bleue French atomic bomb test in Algeria, Ward initiated radioactive fallout measurements...
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    April 28, 2009, and again on Arte on February 10, 2010. The documentary Gerboise bleue, directed by Djamel Ouahad and released in 2009, widely mentions this...
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  • War and Peace in the Nuclear Age is a 1989 PBS television series focusing on the effect of nuclear weapons development on international relations and...
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    the USSR eventually. February 16: France successfully tests its first atomic bomb, Gerboise Bleue, in the middle of the Algerian Sahara Desert. April:...
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  • 1960 – With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons. 1960 – Black college...
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    continental anti-colonialists, their complicity—at "Gerboise Bleue", France's first nuclear test, which occurred on 4 February 1960 near Reggane in the...
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