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Between 1960 and 1966, the French colonial regime detonated 17 nuclear bombs in colonised Algerian Sahara and tested other nuclear technologies and

France-Algeria relations: The lingering fallout from nuclear tests in the Sahara Published image copyrightGetty Images image captionThe French used dummies at the nuclear test site near Reggane seen in this picture from December 1960 The continued fallout from the nuclear tests carried out by France in the desert of its former colony, Algeria, continues to pollute relations between the two countries more than 60 years later, as Maher Mezahi reports from Algiers. On the morning of 13 February 19...

The lingering fallout from French nuclear tests in Algeria © Getty Images The French used dummies at the nuclear test site near Reggane seen in this picture from December 1960 The continued fallout from the nuclear tests carried out by France in the desert of its former colony, Algeria, continues to pollute relations between the two countries more than 60 years later, as Maher Mezahi reports from Algiers. © BBC On the morning of 13 February 1960, just 45 minutes after the French army deton...

French report on the unfairness of France’s nuclear history in Algeria The Stora Report addressed several scars from the Algerian War for Independence (1954–62), a bloody struggle for decolonization that met savage repression by French troops. One of these controversies stems from French use of the Algerian Sahara for nuclear weapons development. France proved its bomb in the atmosphere above this desert, naming the inaugural blast , or Blue Jerboa, after the local rodent. Between 1960 an...

French report grapples with nuclear fallout from Algerian War General Jean Thiry, director of nuclear experiment centers, pressing a button to trigger the explosion of the third French atomic bomb at the Reggane test site in the Algerian Sahara. The test, called Gerboise rouge, took place on December 27, 1960. Credit: AFP/Getty Images In January, the French historian Benjamin Stora filed a report commissioned by the French President Emmanuel Macron aimed at “reconciliation of memories bet...