• 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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  • tests, Gerboise Bleue, Gerboise Blanche, Gerboise Rouge and Gerboise Verte, at the CSEM. For these tests, with the exception of the Gerboise Blanche...
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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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    the current system. France tested its first nuclear weapon in 1960 ("Gerboise Bleue"), based mostly on its own research. It was motivated by the Suez Crisis...
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  • colour of the French Flag. Gerboise Blanche operation was carried out 3 months after the success of the first test, Gerboise Bleue. Unlike the first attempt...
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  • Reggane, Algeria. This was the 3rd French nuclear test, after Gerboise Bleue and Gerboise Blanche, completing the colors of the French flag. During this...
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    possess nuclear weapons on February 13, 1960, when the atomic bomb "Gerboise Bleue" was detonated in Algeria, then still a French colony (formally a part...
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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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    late 1950s. An early 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...
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    Partial Test Ban Treaty, acquire and test nuclear weapons (the 1960 Gerboise Bleue and the 1964 596, respectively) to assert themselves as global players...
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    thermonuclear weapon test by the United Kingdom (1960-02-13)February 13, 1960 Gerboise Bleue 70 France First fission weapon test by France. (1961-10-31)October 31...
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    bomb, which was tested for the first time in 1960 in the nuclear test Gerboise Bleue. Bertrand Goldschmidt was born in Paris on 2 November 1912 to a French...
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    present—symbolizing, for continental anti-colonialists, their complicity—at "Gerboise Bleue", France's first nuclear test, which occurred on 4 February 1960 near...
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  • in the movie is actually of the United States' Baker Test in 1946.) Gerboise Bleue (French first atmospheric A-bomb) Agate (French first underground A-bomb)...
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    February 1960, France performed its first nuclear weapons test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", meaning Blue Jerboa. In 1955, the country started Project Coelacanth...
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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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    Djedida Tinoufel Elgadima Zaouit Reggani Taourirt Berriche Algeria portal Gerboise Bleue - France's first nuclear bomb, tested at Reggane "Population: Wilaya...
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    Soba on 1 December 1916. On 13 February 1960, during the Algerian War, Gerboise Bleue – the first French nuclear test – detonated in the middle of the Algerian...
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  • – February 13 – France successfully tests a nuclear weapon, called Gerboise Bleue, in the Sahara near Reggane, French Algeria. 1960 – 1 May – An American...
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  • the Algerian war of independence and the first French nuclear test, Gerboise Bleue). Arte's president of fiction, Olivier Wotling, confirmed a second season...
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    thermonuclear weapon test by the United Kingdom (1960-02-13)February 13, 1960 Gerboise Bleue 70 France First fission weapon test by France. (1961-10-31)October 31...
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    lists are the 5 safety tests at Adrar Tikertine in Algeria. Operation Gerboise bleue, February 13, 1960 (first atomic bomb) and three more: Reggane, Algeria;...
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    which it had used under de Gaulle to carry out its first nuclear tests (Gerboise bleue). Many European settlers (pieds-noirs) living in Algeria and Algerian...
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  • with Red Chinese troops along their small common border. February 13 – Gerboise Bleue: France tests its first atomic bomb, in the Sahara Desert of Algeria...
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    eventually. February 16: France successfully tests its first atomic bomb, Gerboise Bleue, in the middle of the Algerian Sahara Desert. April: Jupiter IRBM deployment...
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    nuclear deterrent against potential threats. The French atomic bomb Gerboise Bleue was tested in February 1960. In 1966, de Gaulle further loosened his...
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  • Rieti, Italy. 1960 – With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons. 1960...
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  • military and energy sectors. France detonated its first atomic bomb, the "Gerboise bleue" as planned on February 13, 1960, at the Reggane testing site in Algeria...
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    France had used these sites to carry out its first nuclear tests (Gerboise bleue) in 1960. 90% or more of the Europeans established in Algeria (pieds-noirs)...
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  • 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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