First French nuclear test (Gerboise Bleue)
1960 · Event
France conducts its first nuclear test in the Algerian Sahara, becoming the fourth nuclear power.
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Around 1960
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Korean War (1950)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Suez Crisis (1956)