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training and supporting brutal interrogators while free to human rights to the rest of the world. they had lined steps to our special report on those who've seen the dangers of nuclear weapons firsthand and are taking it upon themselves to open the world's eyes. the nuclear age is over sixty years old richard pretty can he can describe exactly how an underground test was. through every one zero almost you couldn't hear anything there was no noise at all the ground lifted up. we live under the threat of increasingly sophisticated weapons hume's. in two thousand one hundred eighty eight states parties to the moon proliferation treaty. signed on to

a statement providing for an unequivocal undertaking to the total elimination of nuclear weapons it has been set back by princeton review united states but not alone russia france china the u.k. all have their share of responsibility. to summon into cream and are not being honored. what is happening now it is that their role is in some countries are able to write a draft short over international law because there is insufficient body of protest from they didn't that country were linked into these basic principles. french polynesia thrust into the midst of the nuclear tests. and when we accompanied them to ground zero with guns pointed ready to fire who were we going to fire at i wonder he should clearly crabs rub. it with anyway there was a russian or american invasion nigel no end of the cord war and they're going away

of the soviet union many people thought their nuclear weapons disappeared so a lot of the people who were at the restaurant disarmament issues and moved their activism to the environment or fighting globalization or other issues and no one could a spy thing in the streets for disarmament 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 thousand nine hundred sixty six french polynesia lay out all the more meaning the great secret became france's marshall islands or 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. we gen the goals and the french polynesia to be part of what france will become unique that is to say imagine uclear power. but to me that is disgusting. and all that morning was imposed on us don't you not in fact she makes us guilty too yeah for we are victims much are also responsible for what's happening to us and for what might happen if france 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 the economy is dependent on france and the subject of nuclear testing remains taboo but this doesn't stop more air. bristow you right now. that i'm thinking of my children's future. to some of the. tiny territory a tiny country for which we have a high percentage of people suffering from tire oid long and bladder cancer. and it's frightening to know all that. with the help of her husband that he can teach her a 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. all of the politically

because he decided to speak out about the nuclear issue because it's part of our contemporary history times and it is disrupted our society since the sixty's. now we suffer from the ills of a modern society yes we tell our son about our country's history but then 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 tests here and not in france. we explained that we are in the middle of a big ocean put you down there only two hundred thousand inhabitants. there could 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. just what am i going to say to them when they ask what did you do to get my country into the situation it's on that's what i worry about. we were of the atom bomb generation. proof play football at all you're both stance on 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 there are 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 different

from us it's not possible there's a promise not just since the french tests we were against the american nuclear tests in the marshall islands. 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 comic 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 i'm concerned and continue to detonate bombs suspended from big buildings. by nine hundred seventy four forty six pierced the atmosphere of french polynesia the word environment was

still alien to the french however this was not the case for greenpeace of 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 a base group decides to stop all nuclear testing in the pacific soon greenpeace departs for more they find an ally in new zealand or a follow up from the french testing has been detected on its soil. new zealand five a completely international court of justice and wins. france is forced to renounce atmosphere but there is still another option the era of french underground testing begins it will last more than twenty years thanks to bloomberg 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 the problem is therefore to figure out exactly what conditions it's going to explode and with how much part which is a ridiculous justification since the purpose of the ball mr killed people women and children so to achieve that goal you don't need to be a perfectionist. because i've known him since i was little but i never knew she worked on more. if i told my superiors i want to be protected why are they protected by not getting shit with my khaki police uniform shorts i can't be all that he can be and the military personnel are covered from head to toe. do what about us polynesians in what about us is not the same call 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.

this crucial deep blow he only wanted to play or is when some polynesians played the card about the french injecting billions here. from the force they say take advantage of it and don't go around talking nonsense while i just go to endure association tatto it's really a very young association two thousand and 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 is a hurting them to take a greater interest in the nuclear problem. so that's how we joined. the nucular 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 starve that was the government's message. was. if you were against the obama then 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 if 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 teenager then. and i said to myself who are the real crazy ones and there is are all the ones who are against nuclear testing so all the ones who supported him. it was because my classmates for example were saying oh yeah and you create

testing so it's a bone that explodes that's it. only when you fear about an activist getting arrested by the police and thrown in jail and not be a need to get any of them i think that in her mind she wonders why is it always my father. even if not we 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 sell anything i wonder if it was really worth it for him to make the sacrifice when others would not yes i was a little angry at all that. you do didn't shoot away on various trips to new zealand with my parents i had the opportunity to meet some members of greenpeace to going to know you couldn't i

think they will bring you to cross the ocean to try and stop nuclear tests and get google going but it would have been so much better all if our people use 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 prepare to sail again tomorrow of france orders the sinking of their ship the rainbow warrior anchored in new zealand and harbor. the bombing provokes an uproar from the international community and tremendous publicity for greenpeace. ten years later in one thousand and five a french president jacques chirac orders a new series of nuclear tests this time to heat else. the never actually our customers trade was in one thousand nine hundred four. and in

one thousand nine hundred five in the airport. and we saw the riot police shooting at protesters in cities such. as if. it was we know it was like watching a big movie screen. because if. it was very upsetting it was a feeling of hate. hate. this appalling asian people rose up together and said you know mr chirac please stop. he just brushed it away and said something my decision is final on. it one person one person decided the entire future of my children. my grandchildren and my great grandchildren. it's in c. and. genuine 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. lead the news is in the last tests justified an enormous investment to build new equipment new missiles new bombs the laser megajoules and you aircraft into that damage so everything is being updated between now and twenty twenty. results from countries like the united states. some of the other western nations in the bowl being new nuclear weapons that excites the interest in countries like korea and their round 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 acquire nuclear weapons is illegitimate leaders would be fooling themselves if they think that this type of system can continue we are still living in the system that emanates from the end of the second world war five countries in 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 the special status i was going to have one law one standard we're going to have to do class world increasingly countries for different developing world are saying that they're not going to live in a two class world. this is a misnomer forswear french we are in our passports also french but second class citizens yes second rate is do you remember what else on said the other day.

if we had been bill in michigan we'd never have heard nuclear tests. that's what it's called back then was that if i think that when we have our independence. the whole truth about the tests and their consequences will come out. within the hour people are taken for ignorance and that has to stop polluting and we are not ignorant. today we want the truth and we're going to get it france always maintained their bombs were clear that they were exploding clean atomic bombs but in two thousand and six they conceded to some follow up throughout french polynesia. measurable is as i say the camp or in jest and it stands our test which were carried out the year i was boring. if you

and i know that i've had a problem for two years now. and i wonder if it's connected to the nuclear tests. this shows that one hundred and ninety six radioactive follow it's 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 circuits a defense secret so there's no information at all. the problem exists in french polynesia either as the collective anxiety brought aboard my cycle sociological poisoning or in terms of the code of silence that has prevailed over the radioactive fallout. here you know if there is a psychosis it's because the government created it we want to know the radiation

dose of those fall outs they tell us there were one hundred ninety six of them with no health consequences the truth has to be told not after years and years of this atmosphere of secrecy let's call it by its rightful name come on. people who live there are worried and rightly so because i think they deserve the truth they need people campaigning for transparency doesn't necessarily make you a doomsayer. in general we have a higher rate of fire with cancer as you compared to some regions it's much higher seems the war but 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 easiest way to find the people who worked on more is to tour the halls outside the oncology department in the hospital of people. you love this year he worked in d.c. in. a repair facility for navy ships returning from the states. and now i have lung cancer. he has cancer in his left lung on. the show because he worked on more wall for a very short time only six months and the second time they brought him home because he was having trouble breathing. and we 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 my entire eight. and is starting to get bigger look here and later it will 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 peter 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 to pay them home. 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. he knew the four years they have been checking me he before they couldn't figure out that i had a kidney tumor. i am waiting for

someone to say clearly your illness was caused by eating too much pork too much of this or that while also because of the nuclear testing is 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 it's clean. not all the plutonium is used up a lot of it is just left behind so that's what we're talking about most of that so long as it remains under growing. is not a problem when it gets into the water and when it gets in. then it could be a problem. what is the legacy of one hundred fifty to undergo nuclear tests says saved seven hundred kilos of plutonium

underneath more rula what does that mean. for the norm. 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 i don't think that's means it will take more than two hundred forty thousand years before it can be considered harmless beautiful city. 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 us government in the rather tests indicate that in one. has migrated quite far from the past already within forty years. one of the additional problems that have been discovered

in the last fifteen years turns out to be a very complicated substance chemical behavior is very difficult to characterize it may migrate faster in the water. than before and so now we have to worry about. 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 moral no no never. can seven hundred kilos of plutonium buried in else oil. and i ask myself is because whether it's worth having children will see poor when they're faced with

a tragedy. and it screwed indies happened. to an. issue for me because from then all it would take would be a tsunami when up. fifty one i heard talking about the legacy. i saw my daughter you know. going and kissing we picked and i thought if i don't do anything unusual any one day should blame me as you put that's what motivates me to fight the nuclear threat through none struggle for my country sing dependence. culture is the same i think the taxpayers' money i mean it was never really created as a currency crisis european finance ministers central bankers and politicians remain

at odds on how to rescue the hero as pressure mounts. it's. easy. thank. you.