Saturday, October 13, 2007

Terrific Picture of French 1968 Canopus Nuclear Test at Fangataufa Atoll

    Beautiful Image of French 1968 Nuclear Test

    The picture was originally taken by the French Army and later scanned from a hardcopy and uploaded to Flickr by Pierre J. In a codenamed 'Canopus' test, the French army detonated France's first two-stage thermonuclear bomb in the Fangataufa atoll of Pacific Ocean on August 24, 1968. The nuclear explosion had a yield of 2.6 megatons.

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Terrific Picture of French 1968 Canopus Nuclear Test at Fangataufa Atoll


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