The Blast of Shame

Gerboise Bleue tells the story of French veterans and Algerian Tuaregs who were victims of the first French atomic tests in the Sahara from 1960 to 1966. For the first time, the last survivors testify about their fight for recognition of their illnesses, and reveal the conditions in which the shots really took place. For the first time, I am going to the ground zero of Gerboise Bleue, the first French atomic test in an atmosphere four times greater than Hiroshima, which has been off-limits to Algerian authorities for 47 years.