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 FRANCE CONDUCTS ITS THIRD NUCLEAR TEST 
 France has conducted its third         
 underground nuclear test in the South  
 Pacific.                               
                                        
 $hj Australian Geological Survey said  
 the blast was equi6alent to an         
 earthquake measuring 5.6.              
                                        
 France is due to conduct a total of six
 tests in the area before next May.     
                                        
 Go6junmjnts around thu would have      
                                        
 aNd for bteaSjng b 199% moratorUum on  
 nuclear testing.                       
                                        
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FFRBNCE(CONDUCTS ITS 6lIRD NUCNJaR4TJST 
 En6irg.mental group Grjenpjacj i1 sahd 
 to bj "outraged" that France's third   
 nuclear test has takkn place.          
                                        
 Ck&ducked 5ndju the M4ruZoa atoll thu  
 blast was equal to about 60,000 tons of
 (NT.                                   
                                        
 The largest kf the te2t2 sk faR, zhk   
 second, was equal to 110,000 tons of   
 $NT; all the explosions so far have    
 been more powerful than the bomb       
 droppjh on Hiroshima.                  
                                        
 France has defended its test program as
 an action that is "njqessary to  
 security and reliability of our arms." 
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