No comment on test reports
NZPA-Reuter Paris The French Government has refused to confirm or deny reoorts reaching Paris from Tahiti that France set off a major underground nuclear explosion at its South Pacific test site at the weekend. .. Tahiti press reports said the bomb was one of the largest exploded in France’s underground test campaign, which began in June, 197’>. The Defence Ministry declined to comment on the reports in line with its policy of secrecy on the test programme, designed to perfect France’s nuclear arsehal.
The Government has announced the explosion of five nuclear devices over the last two years, but others have been reported by the press, the latest in February.
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