many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared so a lot of the people who are active issues moved their activism. or other issues and no one today is fighting in the streets for disarmament nonproliferation. the danger is growing will 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 at all the more meaning the great secret became france's marshall

islands for thirty years this earthly paradise 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. general de gaulle's and that french polynesia to be part of what france will become to make that is to say imagine you cleopatra were. but to me that is disgusting and. then moment was imposed on us don't you not in fact she makes us guilty too yes we are victims but we are also responsible for what's happening to us and for what might happen if france were to use its nuclear weapons . well and i find that on forgivable and.

or. 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 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. knew so much to protect the. tiny territory a tiny country before but we have a high percentage of people suffering from thyroid long and bladder cancer. and it's frightening to know all that. with the help of her husband the to haitian 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. we decided to speak out about the nuclear issue because it's part of our contemporary history and it has 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 when he asks us to bury some facts we were just talking about nuclear testing with a lottery yes he was wondering why they did the tests here and not in france or we explained that we are in the middle of a big ocean. and there are only two hundred thousand inhabitants. now could do so so fewer people are likely to be affected. 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 the atom bomb generation. battle your boat down it's on have a good time don't worry about anything else we'll look after your country. france is keeping its nuclear arsenal because it needs the nuclear deterrent to discourage various threats to its vital interests. 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. it's not possible they are fine it's not just since the french tests we were against the american nuclear tests in the marshall islands wash out. 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 tonic 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 nine hundred fifty eight campaign for nuclear disarmament organize the first world wide grassroots opposition in one thousand nine hundred eighty three under the pressure of the peace movements the two western powers in 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 bombs pierced 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. decides to stop all nuclear testing in the pacific soon greenpeace departs for more they find an ally. from the french testing has been detected on its soil. france is forced to renounce atmosphere testing but there is still another option the era of french underground testing. it will last more than twenty years. 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 explodes the problem is therefore to figure out exactly what conditions it's going to explode and with how much which is a ridiculous justification since the purpose of a bomb is to kill 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. if i told my superiors i want to be protected why are they protected. khaki police uniform shorts. all that. and the military personnel from head to toe. what a badass polynesians in what about us in the same ball on we're tougher. we're tough or so we can take a dose of radiation i don't know maybe it's from eating tarot or who knows.

blow what i deplore is when some polynesians play the card about the french injecting billions here. in the force they say take advantage of it and don't go around talking nonsense. and you've got to end your association and. it's really a very young association two thousand and one wasn't it. last year head to the president told they saw all ham on the radio he was appealing to young people is a region 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. and see if you were against the 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 but it seems 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 then. and i said to myself who are the real crazy ones that are. the ones who are against nuclear testing all the ones who supported. it because

my classmates for example were saying oh yeah nuclear testing is so it's a bone that explodes that's it. only when you'd hear about an activist getting arrested by the police and thrown in jail. to get to meet them or i think that in her mind she wondered why is it always my father. if you don't it's true 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 to him to make the sacrifice when others would not yes i was a little angry about that. do you know when you're on various trips to new zealand with my parents i had the

opportunity to meet some members of greenpeace to go and no you couldn't if i think they will bring to cross the ocean to try and stop nuclear tests. but it would have been so much better if our people had risen up together in protest all messages to move. greenpeace irritates the french military july tenth one thousand nine hundred five while the activists prepare to sail again to morrow of france orders the sinking of their ship the rainbow warrior anchored in new zealand's auckland harbor. the bombing provokes an uproar from the international community and tremendous publicity for greenpeace. ten years later on . nineteen the french president jacques chirac orders a new series of nuclear attack this time to he. actually our first demonstration was in one thousand nine hundred four and in one

thousand nine hundred five both in the airport. and we saw the riot police shooting at protesters cities so this city. was weird it was like watching a big movie screen. it if. it was very upsetting it was a feeling of hate. hate. let the polynesian people rose up together and said you know mr chirac please stop. 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 long term research. in the last tests justified an enormous investment to build new equipment new missiles new bombs the laser megajoules and you aircraft so everything is being updated between now twenty and twenty. only interesting thing is that results from countries like the united states and some of the other western nations in developing new nuclear weapons that it excites the interest in countries like korea and iran who want to join the nuclear club. two thousand and six is a landmark year the united states the united kingdom france russia and china all we

invest 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 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 a special status i was going to one law one standard we're going to have to class world increasingly countries particularly developing world are saying that they're not going to live in a two class world. force where french we are in our passports the french but second class citizens second rate is do you remember what i said the

other day. if we had been telling me sheehan would never have had nuclear tests. well that's what i was called back then. well i think that when we have our independence. the whole truth about the tests and their consequences will come out. to our people are taken for ignorant and that has to stop polluting 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. pleasure. i see the camp recording test and the center test which were carried out the year i was born. he

refused 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 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. 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. exists in french polynesia either as the collective anxiety brought about by cycles 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 fallouts they tell us there were one hundred ninety six of them with no health consequences the truth has to be told that after years and years of this atmosphere of secrecy let's call it by its rightful name. lee popular people who live there are worried and rightly so because i think they deserve the truth immediately put campaigning for transparency doesn't necessarily make you a doomsayer. but. in general we have a higher rate of fire wood cancer as you compared to some regions it's much higher seems that if we have a higher in. siddons of leukemia than elsewhere it's probably due to the bomb missing but that means to be proved we have to hurry and take samples from people

who are still vivid the easiest way to find the people who worked on more is to tour the halls outside the oncologist department in the hospital of the people. 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. you know he worked for a very short time only six months and the second time they brought him home because he was having trouble breathing. he had three brothers who worked in all three died of this yes. yes yes they died. this is his wife she has it's my time. and it's starting to get bigger look and later it will be

here. but i'm not saying it's because of moral or no 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. 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 mind. his illness has gotten worse and i'm going to lose him so tets i don't care about money. yes that's the way. the four years they have been checking me. 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. 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 it's clean. all the plutonium is used a lot of it is just left behind so that's what we're talking most of that so long as it remains under grow. is not a problem when it gets into the water and when it gets to plants then it could be a problem. what is the legacy of one

hundred fifty to undergo nuclear tests six 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. this assumption that plutonium 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. indicates that in one. has migrated quite far past already within forty years. one of the additional

problems that had been discovered in the last fifty 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. we have to worry about that. you know we have seven hundred kilos down there. nobody knows if it's stabilised. is beginning to cave in that's the legacy we're left with and they want us to close the book. no no never. said to seven hundred kilos of plutonium buried in l. soil. and i ask myself is because it's worth having children

see poor when they're faced with a tragedy. and that's good indeed happen. is you feel because it would take would be a tsunami. when i heard him talking about the legacy. i saw my daughter. you know and i thought if i don't do anything it and shoot at me one day she'll blame me that's what motivates me to find the nuclear threat through none struggle for my country sing dependence. wealthy british style the sun. spot on the front of the.

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