>>French atmospheric nuclear test, Moruroa Atoll, French Polynesia 3 July 1970 (914kT):
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>>http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/7937/3july1970licornenuclear.jpg
>>http://www.seanbuckley.ca/blog/2007/11/26/the-licorne-nuclear-test/
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>>There are some videos of tests on YouTube e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p9wcQ7Nfek
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>That the French still detonated nuclear weapons in the open air in 1970 is extraordinary. Truly they have no shame. What other country could have got away with
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior

The U.S. that's who. I agree that the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior was wrong, but it was also state sponsored and the agents went on public trial by the world and yet I don't recall any real trouble or public denouncement for France the govt over that. Nor for France's inept attempt to blame MI6 at the time either. I think France basically did what the U.S. would have loved to do at the time themselves, but wasn't willing to risk the posibble world public backlash. I would not be surprised to learn that France had unspoken support from the U.S. at the time. One of those "we won't complain if you do it." Outside of that incident, it is difficult to find a lot of sympathy for Greenpeace activists (not referring to that action). I wonder, have the hoodie terrorists started attacking yet?

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