Tucked away in the treaty that signaled Algerian independence from France was a “gerboise bleue”––a “blue desert rat”––and a code name for the first French nuclear test on Algerian soil.
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Tucked away in the treaty that signaled Algerian independence from France was a “gerboise bleue”––a “blue desert rat”––and a code name for the first French nuclear test on Algerian soil.