21.   France plans to carry out eight underground blasts in the Mururoa Atoll starting next month.

22.   France has attracted widespread international criticism for its plan to conduct seven or eight underground nuclear blasts through to next May.

23.   France set off a sixth underground nuclear blast in the South Pacific, the last in a series of atomic tests that generated protests worldwide.

24.   French authorities have not said when they would stage the first of eight or nine underground blasts set from September through May, plans that have sparked worldwide protests.

25.   France set off a sixth underground nuclear blast in the South Pacific on Saturday, possibly the last in a series of atomic tests that has generated protests worldwide.

26.   France set off a sixth underground nuclear blast in the South Pacific on Sunday, possibly the last in a series of atomic tests that has generated protests worldwide.

27.   France set off an underground nuclear blast in the South Pacific on Tuesday, beginning what the government says will be a series of up to eight nuclear tests.

28.   French military officials say eight underground blasts are necessary to verify computer blast simulation programs that will eliminate the need for future tests.

29.   France detonated a fourth underground nuclear blast at its test site in the South Pacific.

30.   France has asserted the underground blasts are safe and pledged to end all testing when the current series of up to eight blasts is finished next year.