It brings the nation a step closer to its aim of developing a compact nuclear device to arm missiles. | France explodes third atomic bomb on this day 27th December 1960 France has completed a third nuclear test in the Sahara desert in Africa. It brings the nation a step closer to its aim of developing a compact nuclear device to arm missiles. The explosion took place this morning at Reggan in south-western Algeria, according to a communique from the French Armed Forces...- full story