III Year Lettorato Inglese -- Group 3C (Peterson-More):

Jennifer Pudney p. 125, Passage 31 (previously assigned and discussed in class), suggested English translation

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Pudney passage #31

11:30 pm: the first nuclear bomb of the Chirac era exploded/went off in the depths/bowels of the Mururoa atoll. A few minutes later the Minister of Defense announced/declared/said, “we had to conduct the/this experiment. If we had had the information we need[ed] beforehand, we wouldn’t have had to reach this point// to do this.” France’s challenge to the whole/ to the rest of the world began recently and the experiments will continue for as long as the French experts think that there is a threat to national security from some / posed by other/foreign countries. The people’s response // The response of public opinion exceeded all forecasts: a million people protested/demonstrated in the streets all over the world on the night of the explosion // a million people took to the streets all over the world to protest on the night of the explosion.