91.   Chirac also thanked Greece for being among the few nations that abstained from a U.N. vote last fall condemning France for resuming underground nuclear tests in the South Pacific.

92.   Chirac announced last June that France would conduct up to eight such underground tests, then stop testing for good and sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

93.   Chirac announced Tuesday that France will conduct a series of eight underground nuclear tests at Mururoa and Fangataufa atolls in the South Pacific beginning in September.

94.   Chirac earlier this month said France would conduct eight underground test blasts in French Polynesia to verify computer simulation that would make further testing unnecessary.

95.   Defying world condemnation, Indians swelled with national pride Tuesday after learning that their government conducted three underground nuclear tests.

96.   Economic sanctions were imposed against both Pakistan and India after the South Asian neighbors conducted underground nuclear tests last May.

97.   Failing that, Pretoria would publicly declare it had the bomb or dramatically prove it with an underground test.

98.   For reasons that are still not completely clear, India has conducted underground nuclear tests and provoked a storm of protests from the whole world.

99.   France detonated a underground test at Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia on Friday.

100.   France has announced it will carry out eight underground tests from September through next May.