sentences:  Among those exposed were several French government officials, including French Defense Minister Pierre Messmer and Gaston Palewski.The site chosen for the test was In Eker (Algerian Sahara), around 150 km north of Tamanrasset.The Taourirt Tan Afella mountain, one of the granite Hoggar Mountains (south of Algeria), after having been the object of geotechnical surveys (erroneously shown as a gold or uranium mine), was kept as a test site.