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the u.s. freedom of assembly and make it easier to throw demonstrators behind bars protesting in areas where the president or anyone protected by the secret service may be visiting could now be considered a felony. up next we explore the risks surrounding today's nuclear weapons arsenals across the globe stay with us. the nuclear age is the first sixty years. i can describe exactly how an underground test was not the every one zero almost you couldn't hear anything about it there was no noise that old when 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 periphery really. signed onto a statement providing for an unequivocal undertaking to the total elimination of nuclear weapons it is and sat back by the princeton review united states but not

alone russia france china the u.k. all have their share responsibility. disarmament agreements are not being honored. what is happening now is that the rule is intact countries are able to write a draft over international law because there is insufficient body of protest from within that country will bring them to these basic principles. french polynesia was pressed into the midst of the nuclear test. we accompanied them to ground zero with guns pointed ready to fire it will be going to fire out i wonder the issue clearly crabs problem. if we did i mean there was a russian or american invasion nigel no end of the cord war and the going away of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared so a lot of the people who were activists from disarmament issues moved their activism

to the environment or fighting globalization or other issues and no one today is fighting in the streets for disarmament canonical the for ration it 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 fees for practicing nuclear war. in one thousand nine hundred sixty six french polynesia the atoll of 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. and. general de gaulle said that french polynesia is proud to be part of what france will become meek that is to say imagine uclear power. but to me that is disgusting to some and more than hmong was imposed on us we don't all fit in will not in fact makes us guilty to you yeah for 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. 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 taboo but this doesn't stop maria. bristow you right now. that i'm thinking of my children's future. not so much. 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 that he can teach or 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 ballot in cuba 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. or not and 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. there is some fact 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 to cuba and there are only two hundred thousand inhabitants. 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 as what am i going to say to them when they ask

what did you do to get my country into this situation it's on that's what i worry about. we were the atom bomb generation. play football paddle your boat down it's 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 requires 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 have never agreed with nuclear testing. but if we cannot agree to weapons of mass destruction this summer it's not possible they are forgotten it's not just since

the french tests we were against the american nuclear tests in the marshall islands washed out. long before france in one nine hundred forty six 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 thousand fifty eight campaign for nuclear disarmament organize the first world wide grassroots opposition in one thousand 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 bombs pierced the atmosphere of french polynesia the word environment was still alien to the fridge 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 is small thank you for basically decides to stop all nuclear testing in the pacific soon greenpeace departs from or they find an ally in new zealand where fallout from the french testing has been detected on its soil. new zealand classically 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. 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 a bomb is 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 i never knew he worked on me. if i told my superiors i want to be protected why are they protected by a nazi with my khaki police uniform shorts i can't be all that. and the military personnel were covered from head to toe. what about us polynesians in what about us in the same on we're tougher we. were tougher so we can take a dose of radiation i don't know maybe it's from eating. who knows.

you only what i deplore is when some polynesians play of a card about the french injecting billions here. the force they say take advantage of it and don't go around talking nonsense. and you've got to end your association more tato it's really a very young association two thousand and wasn't it uncle. last year head to the presidential dissociation 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.

if you were against the bombing your father or uncle worked at the site and they didn't want to protest against the bomb just because that's a real rift in the family even between father and son that 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 says you call the ones who are against nuclear testing so you know the ones who supported him. it was because my classmates for example were saying oh yeah can you create testing so it's

a bomb that explodes that's it. only when you hear about an activist getting arrested by the police i'm thrown in jail and i mean me to get to meet them and i think that in her mind she wondered why is it always my father. if you really love me tell me it's true that 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 about that. not only do didn't she go away on various troops to new zealand with my parents i had the opportunity to meet some members of greenpeace no you couldn't i think that will bring you to cross the ocean to try and stop nuclear tests and but it would

have been so much better if 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 tomorrow of france orders the sinking of their ship a rainbow warrior anchored in new zealand and harbor. a 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 hear the bells. i never actually are first i'm a stray she was in one thousand nine hundred four. and in one thousand nine hundred five we were both in the airport. and we saw the riot police shooting at

protesters. it. was weird it was like watching a big movie screen to. get it if. it 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 you just brush it away and said something my decision is final. and one person one person decided the entire future of my children. my grandchildren and my great grandchildren. sits 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. we've done is the only last tests justified an enormous investment to build new equipment new missiles new bombs the laser megajoules and you aircraft that coming so everything is being updated between now and twenty twenty. only interesting results from countries like the united states. some of the other western nations in developing new nuclear weapons that it excites them and first 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 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 birth 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 the impression that having nuclear weapons gives them this special status i was going to one law one standard we're going to have to do class world and increasingly it countries particularly developing world are saying that they're not going to live in a two hours world. system the same forswear french we are in our passports also french not second class citizens yes second rate is do you remember which all sound said the other day. if we had been for many sheehan we'd never have had

nuclear tests this week that's what i was called back than last week i think that when we were have our independence. the whole truth about the tests and their consequences will come out because i. wanted 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 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. question won't you tell me i see the camp record test and the stands are test which were carried out the year i was boring. if you know that i've had a thyroid problem for two years now. and i wonder if it's connected to the nuclear

tests and. this is interesting. so this shows that one hundred and ninety six radioactive follow it's were detected in french polynesia. but we don't know the deuce. 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 research 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 it's. your 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 and that after years and years of this atmosphere of secrecy let's call it by its rightful name come on. the. 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 it would. in general we have a higher rate of firewood cancer as you compared to some regions it's much higher. if we have a higher incidence of leukemia than elsewhere it's probably due to the palm 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 apartment in the hospital after people. look over you a lot this year he worked at d.c. in. a repair facility for navy ships returning from the say it's. it dead now and i have lung cancer he has cancer in his love longer. your posture recall 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. he had three brothers who were to morrow and all three died of this yes. yes yes they died. so this is his wife she has it it's my time. and it's starting to get bigger and look and later it will be here with me 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 and

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 prefer my husband to mine and if his illness has gotten worse and i'm going to lose him or so it hurts i don't care about money even if yes that's the way. the four years they have been checking me more anything before they couldn't figure out that i had a kidney tumor. in the other. i am waiting for someone to say clearly your illness was caused by eating too much pork too much of

this or that one last or it's because of the nuclear testing. what have we done it has to stop them i'm sorry give you a load 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. a lot of it's just left behind for that's what we're talking about most of the. problem gets in the water and when it gets. it could be a problem. believe 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 i don't care that 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 casting authorities i think in more than one country turns out to be not quite right. recent research done by the us government in about it indicates that in one. has migrated quite far from the past already within forty years. one of the additional problems that had been discovered in the last fifteen years turned out to be a very complicated substance chemical behavior is very difficult to characterize

and it may migrate faster in the water. than before and so now we have to worry about that. you know we have seven hundred kilos down there. nobody knows if more row is stabilised. in the heart of more is beginning to cave in that's the legacy we're left with and they want us to close the book on moral no no never. the seven hundred kilos plutonium very is an ounce oil. and i ask myself is because when you go it's worth having children see poor when they're faced with a tragedy. and it could indeed happen to them.

is a few tickets when i know it would take would be a tsunami but up to. this when i heard him talking about the legacy on judah. considered i saw my daughter. going to kissimmee. and i thought if i don't do anything unusual any one day she'll blame me as you know that's what motivates me to fight the nuclear threat through none struggle for my country sing dependence.

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