• 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 local population. All four operations were named after the jerboa (Gerboise), a desert rodent found in the Sahara, with the adjunction of a colour...
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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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    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...
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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...
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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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