• 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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    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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  • "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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    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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