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France executed nuclear weapons tests in the areas of Reggane and In Ekker in Algeria and the Mururoa and Fangataufa Atolls in French Polynesia, from XX February 1960 through XX January 1996. 

There were XXX French nuclear tests from 1960 through 1995, with XX of them done in the Algerian Sahara between 1960 and 1966. 

Thirteen underground nuclear detonations were carried out at the In Ekker site, causing large radioactive contamination of the soil.


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