France Announces End to Nuclear Bomb Tests
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events: 1900-2001
- Categories: Diplomacy, International Relations, Foreign Affairs, Military History
- Subcategories: Nuclear Weapons, Power, Radiation
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, French History
- Geographical Location: Paris
- Date: January 29, 1996
Article abstract: In the fall of 1995, France announced plans to make a series of nuclear bomb tests in the South Pacific on an atoll in French Polynesia. Worldwide diplomatic criticism and public opinion within France caused President Jacques Chirac to cancel the test series after five months.
The French Nuclear Weapons Program
In the summer of 1995, President Jacques Chirac announced plans for France to conduct a series of eight underground nuclear explosions. The test site was to be at Mururoa atoll in the South Pacific, about seven hundred miles...
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