Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!auvm!FRCPN11!PHARABOD From: PHARABOD@FRCPN11.BITNET Newsgroups: bit.listserv.disarm-l Subject: Re: Nuclear testing Message-ID: Date: 13 Feb 90 21:48:22 GMT Sender: Disarmament Discussion List Reply-To: Disarmament Discussion List Lines: 15 Approved: NETNEWS@AUVM Gateway From Jim Meritt (Tue, 13 Feb 90 09:34:36 EST): >How many countries (other than France) detonate nuclear weapons for >testing purposes outside of their own country? >Jim (This is mainly historical): 1. The British tested their bombs first in Australia, then (since 1963) in the USA (Nevada). 2. Many people think that the Israelis tested their bomb in the Sahara (it was just said to be another French test). 3. It has been said that the (highly probable) nuclear explosion of 22 September 1979 in the Indian Ocean was an Israeli-South African joint venture. 4. Maybe Pakistan tested its bomb in China. 5. (of course, France says that South Pacific is a French sea...) Jean-Pierre Pharabod