Jacques Le Blanc Quotes


I do not like this word, bomb. It is not a bomb; it is a device which is exploding.


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Jacques Le Blanc, French Ambassador to New Zealand, Comment regarding the French testing of nuclear bombs in the Pacific, Quoted in U. S. News & World Report, October 23, 1995

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