60 years ago, in the Algerian desert, an atomic bomb, equivalent to three or even four times Hiroshima, exploded. Named the “Blue Gerboise”, it was the first atomic bomb tested by France, and of hitherto unrivaled power. This 70 kiloton plutonium bomb was launched in the early morning, in the Reggane region, in southern Algeria, during the French colonial era. If this test allowed France to become the 4th nuclear power in the world, it had catastrophic repercussions. France had, at the time, certified that the radiation was well below the standard safety threshold. However, in 2013, declassified files revealed that the level of radioactivity had been much higher than announced, and had been recorded from West Africa to the south of Spain.

Across two countries, France and Algeria, and five cities, Mohamed Gholam takes us south to tell us ...

A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbre...

Five young Italian climbers, Paolo Grunanger, Lorenzo Marimonti, Pietro Meciani, Lodovico Gaetani an...

TSR documentary on the 1979 expedition to Algeria in the Atakor massif (Hoggar desert), organized by...

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In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residen...

These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. T...

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A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful pris...

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The climbing couple Heinz Mariacher and Luisa Iovane abandon their usual winter training spot to go ...

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