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Tremors echoed in Washington this week from an atomic explosion atop a steel-lattice tower in the faraway Sahara Desert. France became the fourth nation in history to explode a nuclear device (see FOREIGN NEWS). France would not, for some years to come, achieve a militarily significant nuclear capability without U.S. help, but her determination to be a nuclear power at whatever cost raised, or complicated, some touchy problems for U.S. policy. Foremost among them: When and how-if at all-should the U.S. arm its NATO allies with nuclear weapons...
...liberal." The U.S. is not likely to get a change in the law in an election year, will do its best to meet the realities of allies' defense demands (see Defense) by stretching the legal interpretation of custody to mere electronic control over missile firing. But, as the Sahara explosion made clear, this expedient does not measure up to the big fact of the next era of weaponry, when technologically advanced nations can and probably will create their nuclear forces if the U.S. does not show a way to avoid needless duplication of expense and effort...
...into brighter-than-day, and a mountain range on the horizon was illuminated like a stage setting. As the shock wave rolled outward, two men in Hammoudia blockhouse ten miles away were thrown on their faces. With this nuclear bang, set off last week in the heart of the Sahara, France shouldered its way into the world Atomic Club, as Member...
...Lease-Breaker. As his first major act of personal rule, De Gaulle summoned Minister of the Sahara Jacques Soustelle, 48, a Gaullist since the 1940 fall of France. Abruptly, with no attempt to soften the blow, De Gaulle told Soustelle that he was fired-"because your personal stand on Algerian questions is too different from my own." Bitterly, Soustelle replied: "You might have waited until June 18, 1960. That would have finished off a 20-year lease on my life...
...time the Cabinet assembled in Paris next afternoon, even De Gaulle seemed hesitant. Uncommunicatively, he listened while one group of ministers headed by Novelist André (Man's Fate) Malraux called for "launching fire'' against the insurgents, and another led by Minister for the Sahara Jacques Soustelle urged negotiations. In the end, all that was decided was to send Debré to Algiers to scout out the situation. Said De Gaulle fatalistically: "This is either the best thing to do or the worst...