Gerboise Bleue was the codename of the first French nuclear test. It was conducted by the Nuclear Experiments Operational Group, a unit of the Joint Special Weapons Command on 13 February 1960, at the
Students from Mali protesting in Leipzig against the French nuclear test
Canopus (nuclear test)
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Canopus was the first French two-stage thermonuclear test. It was conducted by the Pacific Carrier Battle Group on 24 August 1968, at the Pacific Experiments Centre near Fangataufa atoll, French Polyn
Gerboise Bleue (nuclear test)
…22 kt) tested on 16 October 1964, and the H-bomb Test No. 6 (3.3 Mt), tested 17 June 1967. In 1968, France detonated its first thermonuclear weapon, Canopus (2.6 Mt), at the new facility at Fangataufa, a desert atoll in French Polynesia. All other French atomic-bomb tests, including Canopus, were carried…
Canopus mushroom cloud