France's nuclear tests in Algeria: A colonial legacy that still radiates 60 years later

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As France withholds maps and refuses to help clean radioactive sites from its Sahara nuclear tests, Algeria has begun decontamination efforts on its own Mokhtar Benabdelkader, a 30-year-old engineer living in Adrar, about 1,500km from Algiers, remembers the stories his grandfather Mohamed told him as a child about the Blue Jerboa. He was not talking about the small, harmless desert rodent, but about the French atomic bomb named after the animal, which exploded on 13 February 1960 in Reggane, in