• The "Béryl incident" was a French nuclear test, conducted on May 1, 1962, during which nine soldiers of the 621st Groupe d'Armes Spéciales unit were heavily...
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    gathering veterans of nuclear tests (AVEN, "Association des vétérans des essais nucléaires") was created in 2001. Along with the Polynesian NGO Moruroa e tatou...
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  • plus fière. Il y a cinquante ans, la France réalisait son premier essai nucléaire, Jean-Dominique Merchet, Libération, 13 February 2010 Sahara: les cobayes...
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    L'Harmattan. ISBN 978-2-343-09502-8. Wodka-Gallien, Philippe (May 2014). Essai nucléaire: La force de frappe française au XXIe siècle : défis, ambitions et...
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  • tests conducted by the French military. They included the now infamous Béryl incident which released a cloud of radioactive dust outside the tunnel entrance...
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