France-Algeria relations: The lingering fallout from nuclear tests in the Sahara
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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 1960, just 45 minutes after the French army detonated an atomic bomb as a test in the Algerian Sahara, President Charles de Gaulle sent a message to his army minister.