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    Fangataufa (or Fangatafoa) is an uninhabited coral atoll in the eastern part of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia. The atoll has been fully-owned...
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    atolls of Tureia, Fangataufa, Tematangi and Vanavana. France undertook nuclear weapon tests between 1966 and 1996 at Moruroa and Fangataufa, causing international...
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  • tests in the areas of Reggane and In Ekker in Algeria and the Mururoa and Fangataufa Atolls in French Polynesia, from 13 February 1960 through 27 January 1996...
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    France conducted nuclear weapons testing on the atolls of Moruroa and Fangataufa. French Polynesia is a semi-autonomous island group designated as an overseas...
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  • Alfa Force) on 24 August 1968, at the Pacific Experiments Centre near Fangataufa atoll, French Polynesia. The test made France the fifth country to test...
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  • full-yield test was probably the 110 kt detonation on 1 October 1995 at Fangataufa. It will be succeeded by the TNO, the Tête nucléaire océanique. Force...
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    1966 and 45 more: Moruroa and Fangataufa; in the atmosphere; Canopus first hydrogen bomb: August 28, 1968 (Fangataufa) Operation Achille June 5, 1975...
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  • (English: Operation Unicorn), a French nuclear test in French Polynesia; see Fangataufa Operation Unicorn (Scotland), a supporting plan for Operation London Bridge...
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    tests of hydrogen bombs, which could not be done in Algeria. Mururoa and Fangataufa in French Polynesia were chosen that year. President Charles de Gaulle...
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    independent Algeria. France's testing program then moved to the Mururoa and Fangataufa Atolls in the South Pacific. In November 1967, an article by the French...
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