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a promise to north korea if it goes ahead with its controversial satellite launch. back in half an hour's time with the news in full here on r t moscow next though we meet the people who devoted their lives to saying no to nukes in the front line quest against nuclear arms. the nuclear age is the first sixty years oh. i can describe exactly how an underground test was. the re one zero or more you couldn't hear anything about their was no noise at all of the the ground lifted up. we live under the threat of increasingly sophisticated weapons. in two thousand one hundred eighty eight states british through the one proliferation treaty. signed on to a statement correcting for an unequivocal undertaking to the total elimination of nuclear weapons it has been set back but 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 intact countries are able to write a draft over international law because there is insufficient body of protest from aid in that country willing them to these basic principles. french polynesia pressed into the midst of the nuclear test. along with company building to ground zero with guns pointed ready to fire who are we going to fire at and i wonder if you can maybe crabs grab. it with me there was a russian or american invasion vital 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 at the best from disarmament issues moved their activism to the environment or fighting globalization or other issues or no one today is fighting in the streets for disarmament or nonproliferation it's anger 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 eighty six french polynesia out of more meaning the great secret became france's marshall islands for thirty years this earthly paradise showed under nearly two hundred nuclear explosions but more also became ground zero of the anti-nuclear movement.

gloria cannot overcome the fact that her country collaborated in the development of the atomic bomb. and. to regenerate the goals and that french polynesia is proud to be part of what france will become and weak that is to say imagine a nuclear power. but to me that is disgusting. and more than warm was imposed on us don't you not in fact she makes us guilty too 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. and i find that unforgivable and. behind this image of paradise lies the secret that surrounds attesting 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. risto mood right now. was 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 it's a 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. all of. us he decided to speak out about the nuclear issue because it's part of our

contemporary history and it is disrupted our society since the sixty's. now we suffer from the ills of modern society yes we tell our son about our country's history but then when he asks us. there is one fact we were just talking about nuclear testing with a 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. people and there are only two hundred thousand inhabitants. and you could use also 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 this situation and that's what i worry about. we were the atom bomb generation. proof the ball a football paddle your boat stands 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 their leaders of the church and i've been one since one thousand nine hundred sixty three have never agreed with nuclear testing. but we cannot agree to weapons of mass destruction this summer so 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 of our shock. 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 help of people all over the planet in one nine hundred 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 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 is 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 fall out from the french testing has been detected on its soil. museum in particular made the international court of justice and with. france's 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 explodes 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 you should i call him uncle because i've known him since i was little but i know when you he worked on. it i told my superiors i want to be protected why are they protected and i'm not with my khaki police uniform shorts i can't be all that. he and the military personnel were covered from head to toe. what about us polynesians in what about us it's not the same bomb on we're tougher we. were tougher so we can take a dose of radiation i don't know maybe it's from eating taro or nose.

deep and the only one i deplore is when some polynesians played a card about the french injecting billions here. they say take advantage of it and don't go around talking nonsense. and you've got to end your association. it's really a very young association two thousand and one wasn't his uncle. last year head to the presidential dissociation role and all ham on the radio. he was appealing to young people is a region them to take a greater interest in the nuclear problem than. that's how we joined the socio. 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. and if you were against obama then 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 but if i became aware 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 that says they are the ones who are against nuclear testing so you know the ones who support it. it was because my classmates for example were saying oh yeah

nuclear 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 not be a need to get to meet them i think that in her mind she wondered why is it always my father. if you don't it's true that when he was in jail it shocked me because i felt that it was too much of a sacrifice that my life you know i wonder if it was really worth it for him to make the sacrifice when all this would not be asked so i was a little angry about that. normally do didn't you know were young various trips to new zealand with my parents a little coffee i had the opportunity to meet some members of greenpeace with you know you couldn't if i think they will bring

a phd across the ocean to try and stop nuclear tests and but it would have been so much better all if our people had risen up together in protest all messages to move. greenpeace irritants 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's auckland harbor. a bombing provokes an uproar from the international community and tremendous purposedly for greetings. ten years later in one thousand and five the french president jacques chirac orders a new series of nuclear tests this time to heat up ballots. actually our first demonstration 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. see if. it was like watching a big movie screen. because if. it was very upsetting it was a feeling of hate. hate. the polynesian people rose up together and said you know mr chirac please stop. if 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. and. genuine one thousand nine hundred six france proceeds from this

last nuclear test in polynesia what turns out to be the starting point for a long term research. we've done is in the last tests justified an enormous investment to build new quick meant new missiles new bombs the laser megajoules and you aircraft damage 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 and 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 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

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 on the security council have special powers and it's even more problematic that these five countries are also the five agrees 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 class world increasingly it countries particularly golding world are saying that they're not going to live in a two class world. system the same force where french we are in our passports was the french not second class citizens second rate is do you remember which all songs said the other day. if we had been following michigan we'd never have had nuclear

tests. that's what i was called back than last saturday i think that when we were have our independence. the whole truth of all the tests and their consequences will come out because. well it is the hour of people who are taken for ignorant and that has to stop and you know 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 you got me i say that capricorn tast 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. this is interesting. so this shows that one hundred and ninety six radioactive followed swear to take to the 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 exists in french polynesia either as the collective anxiety brought aboard by cycles 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 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. it's a little bit of people who live there are worried and rightly so because i think they deserve the truth you need people 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 that what if we have a higher incidence of leukemia been 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 alive vote the easiest way to find the people who worked on more is to tour

the halls outside the oncologist department in the hospital after people. over you a lot this year he worked at the santa. fe repair facility for navy ships returning from the states sure it dead now and i have lung cancer. he has cancer in his love long. jump awestruck because he worked on more wall for a very short time the only six months and the second time they brought him home because he was having trouble breathing. we 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's my tirade. and it's starting to get bigger look here and later it will be here busy 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 he

that's all i do 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 prevent home. i'd prefer my husband to monitor the fact that his illness has gotten worse and i'm going to lose him so it hurts i don't care about money even if yes that's the way. he the four years they have been checking me more each day before they couldn't figure out that i had a kidney tumor. and we can 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 one last or it's because of the nuclear testing it's on what have we done it has to stop them and so you 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. is used a lot of it is just left behind for that's what we're talking. most of that. is not a problem when it gets into the water and when it gets. it could be a problem. what is the legacy of one hundred fifty to undergo nuclear tests says it's seven hundred kilos of plutonium underneath merola 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 beautiful since this assumption that you 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 who 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 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. you know we have seven hundred kilos down there. so nobody knows if more rule is stabilize. the heart of morrow or is beginning to cave in that's the legacy we're left with and they want us to close the book on more no no never. the seven hundred kilos plutonium batteries are now soiled. and i ask myself as one what it's worth having the children see poor when they are faced with a tragedy. and it could indeed happen. to them.

is too few tickets for men all it would take would be a tsunami to light up. when i heard him talking about the legacy on did i. choose to die so my daughter. in a kissimmee. and i thought if i don't do anything unusual to me one day she will blame me if you put that's what motivates me to fight the nuclear threat or none struggle for my country sing dependence.

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