France to pay nuclear test victims
France carried out 210 tests in the Sahara Desert and the South Pacific, including Mururoa and Fangataufa, French Polynesian islands, from 1960 to 1996.
Pierre Leroy, a French army veteran, said he was present when a nuclear test misfired in the Sahara in 1962.
"We were 19, 20 years old. They told us, 'There are no risks, it's not dangerous'. There were no precautions," he said.
Staff who took part in the French tests, as well as ...
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