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What began with a bang ended with a barely a whimper.France’sresumption of nuclear testing in the South Pacific last September trig-gered a torrent of global protests and threatened trade bans and consumerboycotts.The sixth detonation,on Jan.27 caused but a ripple.Withequally little fanfare,President Jacques Chirac anncunced two days laterthat the testing was finished.The six tests had provided enough datafor France to fine-tune the computer-simulation technolcgy that willmake further explosions unnecessary, Chirac said—and then turned hisfeather from hawk’s to dove’s.France will n(?)w go ahead and sign theComprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
What began with a bang ended with a barely a whimper.France’s poisoning of nuclear testing in the South Pacific last September trig-gered a torrent of global protests and threatened trade bans and consumerboycotts.The sixth detonation, on Jan.27 caused but a ripple.Withequally little fanfare,President Jacques Chirac anncunced two days laterthat the testing was finished.The six tests had provided enough datafor France to fine-tune the computer-simulation technolcgy that willmake further explosions unnecessary, Chirac said—and then turned hisfeather from hawk’s To dove’s.France will n(?)w go ahead and sign theComprehensive Test Ban Treaty.