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the nuclear age is over sixty years old regime pretty key guy can describe exactly how an underground test was done and no there were three losers one zero almost you couldn't hear anything about there was no noise at all but the ground lifted up. we live under the threat of increasingly sophisticated weapons he was in two thousand one hundred eighty eight states parties to the nonproliferation treaty signed on to a statement providing for an unequivocal undertaking to the total elimination of nuclear weapons it has been set back by principally the united states but not alone russia france china the u.k. all have their share responsibility. to summon them to clean and are not being honored. what is happening now it is that their role is in some countries that is

a bit of a draft shot over international and all because there is insufficient body of protest from within that country boarding them to these basic principles. french polynesia was thrust into the midst of the nuclear tests. when we accompany them to ground zero with guns pointed. ready to fire who we going to fire at. i wonder the issue clearly crabs straub. up with anyway there was a russian or american invasion nigel no end of the cold war and the going away of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared so a lot of the people who were at the best understand moment issues moved their activism to the environment or fighting globalization or other issues and no one could a spiting in the streets for disarmament or nonproliferation. the danger is growing with the anti-nuclear movement wake up.

america was not the only western power to consider the pacific islands far enough from home to use for practicing nuclear war in one nine hundred sixty s. french polynesia out all the more. great secret became france's marshall islands for thirty years this earthly paradise should be under nearly two hundred nuclear explosions but more also became ground zero of the anti-nuclear movement. cannot overcome the fact that our country collaborated in the development of the atomic bomb. regenerative goals and the french polynesia response to be part of what france will

become comedic that is to say imagine uclear palmer. but to me that is disgusting. and one of them the bomb was imposed on us. don't go fit you not in fact he makes us cutie to yefim we're victims but we also are responsible for what's happening to us and for what might happen if friends were to use its nuclear weapons. and i find that unforgivable and. behind this image of paradise lies the secret that surrounds the testing and rips apart the people of french polynesia here economy is dependent on friends and the subject of nuclear testing remains taboo but this doesn't stop maria. bristow mood right now. that i'm thinking of my children's future.

to some of the. tiny territory a tiny country before but we have a high percentage of people suffering from pirate long and bladder cancer. and it's frightening to know all that. with the help of her husband that he can teacher and mother of two uses the internet to broadcast an image of her country one that is rather different from those in the travel agency brochures. as he decided to speak out about the nuclear issue because it's part of our contemporary history thems and it is disrupted our society since the sixty's. and now we suffer from it ills of modern society yes we tell our son about our country's history but when he asks us.

based on facts we were just talking about nuclear testing with the lottery yes he was wondering why they did the casts here and not in france. we explained that we are in the middle of a big ocean. and there are only two hundred thousand inhabitants. there to do so so fewer people are likely to be affected and. yes. my father is a vice president of the independence party. and he has been involved in many anti-nuclear demonstrations. this is what am i going to say to them when they ask what did you do to get my country into this situation some that's what i worry about. we were the atom bomb generation. only football will your thoughts down it's have a good time don't worry about anything else will look after your country.

france is keeping its nuclear arsenal because it needs the nuclear deterrent to discourage various threats to its vital interests. that is the doctrine that was established in the sixty's and it is still valid today. that the leaders of the church and i've been one since one thousand nine hundred sixty three we have never agreed with nuclear testing. but we cannot agree to weapons of mass destruction this time so must it's not possible the earth of violence not just since the french tests we were against the american nuclear tests in the marshall islands russia. long before france in one nine hundred forty six the united states and then great

britain chose the pacific to conduct their testing but their tomic mushroom clouds were poisonous radioactive debris fell on to the surface of the earth and threaten the health of people all over the planet in one thousand fifty eight campaign for nuclear disarmament organized the first worldwide grassroots opposition in one nine hundred sixty three under the pressure of the peace movements the two western powers and the u.s.s.r. signed an agreement banning atmosphere testing france was unconcerned and continue to detonate bombs suspended from big buildings. by nine hundred seventy four forty six the atmosphere of french polynesia the word environment was still alien to the french however this was not the case for greenpeace but the campaign against the french was conceived during the first campaign against the united states because the united states was testing nuclear weapons but was testing them underground and france was still testing weapons in the atmosphere. in one nine hundred seventy one

this small thank you for basically decides to stop all nuclear testing in the pacific soon greenpeace departs for more they find an ally in new zealand where fallout from the french testing has been detected on its soil. new zealand five made the international court of justice and wins. france is forced to renounce atmosphere testing but there is still another option the era of french underground testing begins it will last more than twenty years to blow a bomb you don't actually need to do any tests once you've configured it recently well from a physicist point of view there is no chance that it won't explode at holden is therefore to figure out exactly what conditions it's going to explode and with how much hard which is a ridiculous justification since the purpose of obama's to kill people women and children so do it she thought you don't need to be a perfectionist. i call him uncle because i've known him since i was

little but i never knew he worked on me. if i told my superiors i want to be protected why are they protected i'm not kinship with my khaki police uniform shorts i can't be all that. he and the military personnel were covered from head to toe. do what about us polynesians in what about us is not the same bomb on we are tougher we. were tougher so we can take a dose of radiation i don't know maybe it's from eating tarot or who knows. disclosure deep blow the only one i'd have plur is when some polynesians play of a card about the french and jetting billions here. from the force they say take advantage of it and don't go around talking nonsense they'd be. just going to end your association tatto it's really

a very young association two thousand and one wasn't it uncle. last year had the president of the association all and all ham on the radio he was appealing to young people he's a virgin them to take a greater interest in the nuclear problem then uniquely so that's how we joined. the nuclear tests here devastated polynesian society not just in terms of health the environment and other things. but the structures of the society were destroyed . what does it mean to stop the tests no jobs no money no economy will all store that was the government's message. if you were against obama and your father or uncle worked at the site and they didn't want to protest against the bomb. that's

a real rift in the family even between father and son that is things i became aware of when i was about twenty four. my father went sort of crazy. he said take your wife and daughter and get out i don't want to see you anymore. and i was a teenagers vandal and i said to myself who are the real crazy ones. the so-called evil ones who are against nuclear testing so all the ones who supported him. it better because my classmates for example are saying oh yeah can you clear testing prince so it's a bomb that explodes that's it. only when you hear about an activist getting arrested by the police and thrown in jail and not me and me to get to meet them i think that in her mind she wonders why is

it always my father. immediately oh please don't it's true because when she was in jail it shocked me because i felt that it was too much of a sacrifice to save my life if i wondered if it was really worth it to him to make the sacrifice when others would not yes i was a little angry about that. do didn't you know i live on various trips to new zealand with my parents and you don't think i had the opportunity to meet some members of greenpeace v.q. going to know you can i think they will bring you to cross the ocean to try and stop you clear tests and get google going but it would have been so much better all our people had risen up together in protest on messages to move. greenpeace irritates the french military july tenth one thousand nine hundred five

while the activists prepared to sail again to morrow of france orders the sinking of their ship the rainbow warrior anchored in new zealand and harder. the bombing provokes an uproar from the international community and tremendous publicity at least. ten years later in one thousand and five the french president jacques chirac orders a new series of nuclear tests this time to heat else. remember actually our first demonstration was in one thousand nine hundred four. and in one thousand nine hundred five in the airport. and we saw the riot police shooting its protesters the city's. civic. it was we know it was like watching a big movie screen but. it is. what

was very upsetting it was a feeling of hate. hate. that the polynesian people rose up together and said you know mr chirac please stop. and he just brushed it away and said something my decision is final. it one person one person decided the entire future of my children. my grandchildren and my great grandchildren. it's in c. in. january one thousand nine hundred six france proceeds with this last nuclear test in polynesia what turns out to be the starting point for a long term research. they don't use in the last tests justified an enormous investment to build new equipment new missiles new bombs the laser megajoules and you aircraft coming so everything is being updated between now and twenty twenty.

s. results from countries like the united states. some of the other western nations in the vulcan new nuclear weapons that excites the interest in countries like korea and iran who want to draw in the nuclear club. two thousand and six is a landmark here the united states the united kingdom france russia and china all reinvest in their nuclear arsenals the message is clear it is necessary to their security on the other hand the same countries keep telling non-nuclear nations that acquiring nuclear weapons is illegitimate leaders would be fooling themselves if they think that this is fair game continue we are still living in a system that emanates from the end of the second world war five countries of the

security council have special powers and it's even more problematic that these five countries are also the five countries with nuclear weapons so in a sense it gives the impression that having nuclear weapons gives them a special status i was going to have one law one standard we're going to have to do class world increasingly countries critical and developing world are saying that they're not going to live in a two class world. this summer forswear french we are in our passports this is the french of second class citizens years second rate is do you remember which also said the other day. if we had been pulling michigan we'd never have had nuclear tests. that's what i was called back than. if i think that when we have our independence. the whole truth about the tests and their consequences will come out because. well it's our people are taken

for even rent and that has to stop polluting and we are not ignorant. today we want the truth and we're going to get it always maintained that their bombs were clean that they were exploding clean atomic bombs but in two thousand and six they conceded to some follow up throughout french polynesia. as i say the camp recording test and it sounds our test which were carried out the year i was warren. if you and i know that i've had a thyroid problem for two years now. and i wonder if it's connected to the nuclear tests. this is interesting. this shows that one hundred and ninety six radioactive follow its were detected in french polynesia. but we

don't know the dose. and they're not telling us but they know. in france it takes time for things to be made public particularly with respect to nuclear testing it's top secret it's a defense secret so there's no information at all. the problem is the problem exists in french polynesia either as the collective anxiety brought aboard by psychos sociological poisoning or in terms of the code of silence that has prevailed over the radioactive fallout. do our duty here you know if there is a psychosis it's because the government created it we want to know the radiation dose of those fallouts they tell us there were one hundred ninety six of them with no health consequences or the truth has to be told that after years and years of this atmosphere of secrecy let's call it by its rightful name.

is. people who live there are worried and rightly so because i think they deserve the truth in many people campaigning for transparency doesn't necessarily make you a doomsayer. in general we have a higher rate of thyroid cancer as you compared to some regions it's much higher seems that if we have a higher incidence of leukemia than elsewhere it's probably due to the palm missing but that needs to be proved we have to hurry and tick. samples from people who are still life vivo the easiest way to find the people who worked on more is to tour the halls outside the un college department in the hospital of competing. for you a lot this year he worked at least in. a repair facility for navy ships returning from the states. and now i have lung cancer. he has

cancer in his love long. because he worked on more war for a very short time only six months and the second time they brought him home because he was having trouble breathing. you know he had three brothers who work to morrow and all three died of this yes. yes yes they died. so this is his wife she has and it's my entire it. and it's starting to get bigger look yeah and later we'll be here. if you but i'm not saying it's because of you know i can't we don't have scientific proof but we have lots and lots of questions about it that's all i don't want to say that we should be criticizing. it. also in addition to the serious nature of their illness if you say anything they insult you they tell you all you want is to benefit from french money. i'd

prefer my husband to monitor. his illness has gotten worse and i'm going to lose him so it hurts i don't care about money he yes that's the way. you see the four years they have been checking me he preferred they couldn't figure out that i had a kidney tumor. i didn't commit. i am waiting for someone to say clearly your illness was caused by eating too much pork too much of this or that well also or it's because of the nuclear testing. what have we done it has to stop and so we give you a lot of nonsense and then just say bye guys don't worry you can eat fish you can grow food and there's no problem. well yes there is

a small problem but it's not serious. not all the plutonium is used a lot of it is just left behind for that's what we're talking about most of that so long as it remains underground. is not a problem when it gets into the water and when it gets into plants then it could be a problem. really what is the legacy of one hundred fifty to undergo nuclear tests say it's a seven hundred kilos of plutonium underneath more rula what does that mean. one tenth of a millionth of a gram of plutonium can cause cancer. so it's radioactive half life is twenty four thousand four hundred years. that's means it will take more than two hundred

forty thousand years before it can be considered harmless beautiful since. this assumption that it will not go anywhere which is held by testing authorities i think in more than one country turns out to be not quite right. recent research done by the u.s. government in about it indicates that in one test site has migrated quite far from the test already within forty years. one of the additional problems that had been discovered in the last fifteen years that turned out to be a very complicated substance chemical behavior is very difficult to characterize it maybe migrate faster in the water. than before and so now we have to worry about that and you know we have seven hundred kilos down there.

so nobody knows if more rule is stabilize. the heart of moore is beginning to cave in that's the legacy we're left with and they want to stick close the book on more bone no no never. to seven hundred kilos of plutonium buried in l. soil. and i ask myself it's because i want to know whether it's worth having children will see poor when they're faced with a tragedy. and it could indeed happen. to an. issue from the coast from then all it would take would be a tsunami in light of. this scene when i heard him talking about the legacy.

i saw my daughter you. going to kissimmee pier and i thought if i don't do anything unusual and one day she'll blame me for that's what motivates me to find the nuclear threat culture in the struggle for my country sing dependence. wealthy british style it's like i said. it lightly. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy was much stronger there are no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report on our. mission free accreditation free comes for charges free the arrangement three.

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