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The Blue Desert Rat was one atmospheric nuclear bomb before France switched to underground testing at another site in the Algerian Sahara, named In Ecker, where it conducted a further 13 nuclear tests until 1967. The “Blue Desert Rat” alone had a yield equivalent to four Hiroshima bombs.

= Atomic Bombings of Algeria, Reggane = During the last few years of the French colonialism of Algeria, France conducted four major nuclear bombings in the Reggane Vicinity in Adrar Province between 1960- 1961. After the independence on July 5th 1962, France still exerted some power over Algeria and continued its series of nuclear tests or bombings. In Ecker, another Sahara region territory where there lived civilians and nomadic cultures like Reggane, it conducted a further 13 nuclear tests until 1967. The contentious question remains between the Algerian and the French people whether these bombings were criminal or not, an whether the best choice for them would be "tests" or "bombings", but the shrewd idea remains that, if such scientific tests were fruitful, they should have been tested in France. But even the idea of testing them in an ocean would make them seem criminal, at least for environmentalists, but France has been in denial for too long looking for whatever pretexts to justify these bombings, along with the rest of the French crimes of savage murders, slavery, racism and bigotry that the industrial French authorities of that era exerted on the Algerian agrarian nation.