BOMB TEST POSTPONED
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) PAPEETE (Tahiti), July 15. France yesterday postponed its second Pacific nuclear test for the second time. No reason was given in the official announcement.
French scientists, at the command of President de Gaulle, had timed the test to coincide with Bastille Day, the French national holiday which commemorates the start of the country’s 1789 revolution.
The bomb was to be set off on the island of Mururoa, 800 miles south-east of Tahiti.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31113, 16 July 1966, Page 15
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78BOMB TEST POSTPONED Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31113, 16 July 1966, Page 15
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