Operation
The Communauté still envisioned close cooperation between member states and the French government. The French government was responsible for security and to some degree policing in all states. A number of African leaders were present—symbolizing, for continental anti-colonialists, their complicity—at France's first nuclear test, which took place on 4 February 1960 near Reggane in the Sahara Desert.
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“Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.”
—Francis Bacon (1560–1626)
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