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"France opens archives related to nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific"

"France has opened its archives to the vast majority of documents related to its nuclear weapons tests in the South Pacific.

The defence ministry said President Emmanuel Macron had acknowledged that France owed a debt to French Polynesia for having carried out nearly 200 nuclear tests between 1966 and 1996.

It said Marcon had asked for the complete opening of the archives with the exception of the most sensitive military data.

According to the ministry, 594 boxes at the Defence History Service have so far been identified and processed, meaning 81,980 documents are now declassified and accessible for researchers.

It said only 40 documents were withheld."

RNZ: https://shrtm.nu/DzUC

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The German word "gerade" can mean:
- straight
- right now
- especially

The word "Gerade" means
- straight line

So, the sentence "Ich fragte mich gerade, warum gerade diese Gerade so gerade ist" means:

"I just wondered why especially this line is so straight."

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