This Day in History: 1960-02-13
In 1960 France becomes the fourth country to develop and test nuclear weapons. The 70kt “Gerboise bleue” was the name of their first bomb tested on this day in 1960 in the Algerian desert, then under French control. The first nation to create and test a nuclear bomb was the United States in July 1945 with a 20kt device named “Trinity” followed by Russia with “RDS-1” in Aug/Sep 1949. The United Kingdom tested their first nuclear bomb on the 3rd of August 1952 with “Hurricane” a 25 kiloton device tested off Western Australia.
