What the records say
- When
- 13 Feb 1960
- Kind
- Nuclear test
- Yield (kt)
- 200
- Where
- Reggane Alg
- Coordinates
- 26.19° N, 0.04° W
- Yield kt
- 0–200
- Type
- tower
- Purpose
- British test, effects of nuclear weapons
- Reported by
- DOE
Gerboise Bleue (nuclear test)
1960 weapons test in Reggane, French Algeria
Gerboise Bleue was the codename of the first French nuclear test. It was conducted by the Nuclear Experiments Operational Group (GOEN), a unit of the Joint Special Weapons Command on 13 February 1960, at the Saharan Military Experiments Centre near Reggane, French Algeria in the Sahara desert region of the Tanezrouft, during the Algerian War.
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- Nuclear explosions 1945–1998SIPRI / FOA, via TidyTuesdayNo licence stated
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Gerboise Bleue: France tests its first atomic bomb, in the Sahara Desert of Algeria”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “la France fait exploser Gerboise bleue, sa première bombe atomique à Reggane, dans le Sahara”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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