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Discuss.France faces Algeria nuclear claims
French military veterans who witnessed nuclear tests in the Algerian Sahara in the 1960s have returned to the country to fight for compensation for the Tawareq bedouins who lived in the area.
The Tawareq tribe were exposed to radiation and asbestos at the sites where nuclear explosions took place between 1960 and 1966.
Seventeen tests were carried out in the 1960s on Algerian soil with bombs four times as powerful as those dropped on Japan during World War II.
Radioactive fallout reached areas 1,000km away and the French veterans say it is remains active.
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