Charles Andre Marie Joseph de Gaulle25 August 1968
France explodes a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific & becomes the 5th nuclear power
France · Government / Republic, 5th. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
France explodes a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific & becomes the 5th nuclear power
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