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exactly how an underground test was done. through every one zero almost you couldn't hear anything about it there was no noise at all when the ground lifted up . we live under the threat of increasingly sophisticated weapons. in two thousand one hundred 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 of responsibility. disarmament agreements are not being honored. what is happening now it is that it all is in some countries are able to write a draft should over international law because there isn't sufficient body of protest from within that country or leading them to these basic principles. things ponies

are thrust into the midst of a nuclear attack. we accompanied them to ground zero with guns pointed. ready to fire who were we going to fire at. i wonder he should be crabs. yes we did he there was a russian or american invasion nigel no end of a cord war and going the way of the soviet union many people thought their nuclear weapons disappeared so a lot of the people who were at the western disarmament issues moved their activism to the environment or fighting globalization or other issues and no one could a spy thing in the streets for disarmament and 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 meaning the great secret became france's marshall islands for thirty years earthly paradise sherman under nearly two hundred nuclear explosions but more also became ground zero of the anti-nuclear movement. cannot overcome the fact better country collaborated in the development of the atomic bomb. continue to regenerate the goals and that french polynesia is proud to be part of what france will become can leak that is to say imagine uclear power and. to me that is

disgusting and send one of them mon was imposed on us don't go fit you not in fact he makes us guilty too yeah for we are victims in which we 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 economy is dependent on france and the subject of nuclear testing remains kava. but this doesn't stop more air. bristow you right now. that i'm thinking of my children's future. not so much. any territory a tiny country for which we have

a high percentage of people suffering from dire oid long and bladder cancer. and it's frightening to know all that. with the help of her husband could he simply turn 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. but he didn't create as he decided to speak out about the nuclear issue because it's part of our contemporary history thems and it has disrupted our society since the sixty's. and now we suffer from the ills of modern society yes we tell our son about our country's history ok 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 in northern france. we explained that we

are in the middle of a big ocean. and land there are only two hundred thousand inhabitants. and there could use also fewer people are likely to be affected. yes. i'm ok 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 of the atom bomb generation. proof. 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 a stablished in the sixty's and it is still valid today. that their leaders of the church and i've been one since one thousand nine hundred sixty three have never agreed with nuclear testing. but if we cannot agree to weapons of mass destruction this and so must it's not possible there's a bonus 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 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 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 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 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 the international court of justice and women's 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. you don't actually need to do any tests once you've configured it recently well from a physicist point of view there was no chance to 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 bombs to kill people women and children so to achieve that goal 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 she worked on me. if i told my superiors i want to be protected why are they protected by him not kinship with my khaki police

uniform shorts i can't be all that. and the military personnel were covered from head to toe. you know what about us polynesians. in the same calm on we're tougher. we're tougher so we can take a dose of radiation i don't know maybe it's from eating tarot or five who knows even simple disclosure diplo the only one i deplore is when some polynesians play of a card about the french injecting billions here. from the force they say take advantage of it and don't korans talking nonsense. they can just go to end your association more tatto it's really a very young association just thousand and one wasn't his uncle. last year the president of the association all and all ham on the radio he was appealing to young

people use energy in them to take a greater interest in the nuclear problem but many didn't. so that's how we joined they so ca. the new feeler 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 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 but it's 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 then. and i said to myself who are the real crazy ones and these are all the ones who are against nuclear testing so all the ones who supported. it was because my classmates for example were saying oh yeah and you clear testing so it's a bone that explodes that's it. only two when you fear about an activist getting arrested by the police and thrown in jail and what you need to get in the room i think that in her mind she wondered why is it always my father. giving it up please don't it's true this 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 were not yes i was a little angry at all that. you do didn't shoot all young various trips to new zealand with my parents and you don't think i had the opportunity to meet some members of greenpeace no you couldn't i think they will bring me to cross the ocean to try and stop you clear tests and but it would have been so much better all if our people had risen up together in protest on messages to move. greenpeace irritate the french military july tenth one thousand nine hundred five while the activists prepared to sail again tomorrow of france orders the sinking of

their ship the rainbow warrior anchored in new zealand up in the harbor. the bombing provokes an uproar in the international community and tremendous publicity that. ten years later in one thousand and five the french president jacques chirac orders a new series of nuclear tests this time to heal the balance. of the net 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 at protesters. think. it was weird it was like watching a big movie screen but. if you. can see 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. 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 bets proceeds with this last nuclear test in polynesia what turns out to be the starting point for a long term research. leader and he says he only last tests justified an enormous investment to build new equipment new missiles new bombs the laser major jewel and you aircraft so everything is being updated between now and twenty twenty do need about. really interesting things that results from countries like the united

states. some of the other worst in the oceans and of opening new nuclear weapons that excites the interest and countries like korea and iran who could draw in the nuclear club. two thousand and six is a landmark year 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 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 their question that having nuclear weapons gives them special status are we going to have one law one standard or we're going to have class world increasingly countries particularly galling world are saying that they're not going to live in a two class world. system force where french we are in our passports most of the french got second class citizens second rate and that is do you remember what else on said the other day. if we had been killed in michigan we'd never have had nuclear tests. if that's what i was called back than a little more savvy i think that when we were have our independence. the whole truth about the tax and their consequences will come out because. well it is our people are taken for ignorant 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 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. measurable. i see the camp recording test and it stands our test which were carried out the year i was boring. if you don't 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. 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 and

its 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 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 goes of those faults 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. people who live there are worried and rightly so because i think they deserve the truth anything but campaigning for transparency doesn't necessarily make you

a doomsayer. in general we have a higher rate of cancer as you compared to some regions it's much higher seems the world but if we have a higher incidence of leukemia than elsewhere it's probably due to the bomb but that needs to be proved we have to hurry and tick. samples from people who are still life so vivid the easiest way to find the people who worked on more is to tour the halls outside the oncology department in the hospital after people. you love 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 and his love long. record 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 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 been so my tirade. and it's starting to get bigger look yeah and later it will be here. 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. it. also in addition to the serious nature of their illness if you say anything they insult you they tell you oh you want 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 it hurts i

don't care about money he yes that's the way. he the four years they have been checking me he preferred they couldn't figure out that i had a kidney tumor. you know. 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 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 but it's clean.

all the plutonium is used a lot of it is just left behind so that's what we're talking about most of that so long as it remains underground. is not a problem run 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 say it's 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 means it will take more than two hundred forty thousand years before it can be considered harmless you know forced into. this assumption that couponing 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 there about it indicates 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 fifty years that turned out to be a very complicated substance chemical behavior is very difficult to characterize and it made my great faster in the water. than before and so now we have to worry about that. you know we have seven hundred kilos down there. so nobody knows if more roe is stabilized. in the

heart of more is beginning to cave in that's the legacy we're left with and they want to stick close the book on more go no no never. said to seven hundred kilos on plutonium and buried in our soil. and i ask myself is whether it's worth having children or superman when they are faced with a tragedy. and that's good indeed happen. to know. it's a few because from their knowledge would take would be a tsunami what after. this when i heard him talking about the legacy on judical. computer i saw my daughter. going to kissimmee pier and i thought if i don't do anything and janelle one day she will blame me

that's what motivates me to fight the nuclear threat cauldron and struggle for my country's independence.

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