First Day Cover
首日封
Sobrescrito de 1.º Dia
AlgeriaHomage to the Victims of the French Nuclear Tests in Algeria
Date of Issue : 10 Feb 2010
(The information below is taken from the website : http://timbredujura.blogspot.com/2010/02/essais-nucleaires-francais-et-forts-en.html)
50 years to the day after the first French air nuclear test that took place in the middle of the Algerian Sahara (near the town of Reggane), the Algerian Post has issued a stamp (15 dinars) to pay tribute to the victims of these tests.
Nearly 40,000 people living in this Sahara region have suffered the effects of radioactive contamination after the four French nuclear tests conducted at Reggane from 1960 to 1961 and the 13 underground tests that took place in the Hoggar region from 1961 to 1966...
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