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Charles de Gaulle

France decided to test nuclear weapons above ground

Aug, 1963
Moscow, U.S.S.R.

In August 1963 France decided against signing the Partial Test Ban Treaty designed to slow the arms race because it would have prohibited it from testing nuclear weapons above ground.


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