the tenants of the land the islands say they are the mother that feeds us. on a footing then they put a dirty bomb in there like a rotten bomb in my mother's womb. that's that's what exploded for what and nothing then what she's dead and what she's dead one element my eyes smiling is dead now.

on this january of the moon under the magnificent dome of the senate the debate begins a debate which is not exactly popular maybe because it's about polynesia a country some eighteen thousand kilometers away with a different world yet this is a day that could go down in history nearly as you deny the environmental damage throughout the oceana in particular in french polynesia is to deny a part of every polynesians identity depriving them of their land their environment is to deprive them of part of themselves the guy who this stone comes from or. sits and this is exactly what all of this is about this afternoon nothing else this is more. what is all that's visualized the forty one flashes in the thermonuclear explosions

in the middle of the sky above more money shagnasty said some of your predecessors minister. visualize again the one hundred thirty one underground explosions and underwater blasts one hundred twenty three of which were and more atolls minister my dear colleagues if i offered you this stone would you feel safe placing it under the pillow of your loved ones every night on it wouldn't you at least like to have a choice know that there are none of the parents and none of their children had a choice. after the first nuclear tests in nine hundred sixty in the midst of the algerian uprising france needed to find new frontiers as empty and as barren as the algerian desert. three years later france to sighted to continue its atomic saga in

polynesia. the principles and conditions the circumstances that have led us here good have determined that we need to equip ourselves with at tomic force. and then we stand by the decision which we have come to the most recent build and if required to use our own atomic force. that same year a member of the territorial council on his way to paris was summoned to the lose a palace to testify. general the goal spoke very little of polynesia and he didn't tell me about the two atolls. enough he underlined the need to get to work it was urgent we had to act quickly. recently for him the experiments had to take place and go well. for this they needed vast open spaces remote and

sparsely inhabited french polynesia was just that a large area bigger than europe to need didn't know was that two years earlier in one nine hundred sixty one topographic surveys had already been carried out. at one point he might have seen that i was embarrassed that i was questioning myself and i didn't even have time to talk see he told me that if it didn't go well you know there could have been a fair because he would declare that french polynesia would become a military territory they're. just a big good i knew that fred the state would take it by force i knew where end it would come to it was too important for friends and for. to go on february the six to nine hundred sixty four the territorial assembly of polynesia buckled under

pressure and approved the general's decision as a result to little known atolls and for tougher were taken over by the state and became defacto military zones and there were no grounds upon which to claim ownership of those assholes your car owners were still there so there's a lot at least have some courtesy that's a polite thing to do is ask their own is if you can move in if not ok have a discussion around a table but hear nothing they moved in by force or force out with no regard for us whatsoever. the reason given by the government was the launch of the crucial pacific experimentation center project. because c.p. started being built in my things moving and tempers were call me. we were heading towards profit. when profit.

to goal wanted a credible nuclear deterrent it was a priority and nobody questioned the costs involved a few months later. a true show of france's military power. everyone was overjoyed to get within a few years the traditional culture would have completely disappeared. but. soon hundreds of workers were hired and rushed in from all over polynesia. a camp was built to hells up to four thousand people four hundred fifty kilometers to the north the i told of how they came the largest tickle hope of the experimentation center. forty five years later the daily hustle and bustle is nothing but

a distant memory only rundown remains like this problem to bear witness to its former glory. the buzzing operation that once employed two thousand five hundred people has become nothing more than a ghost town. one hundred ninety three blasts took place over the thirty years of the pollen easy and nuclear project throughout this time the official position has always remained the same everything is under control and the tests safe. we were always very poorly informed about these things we recognised what happened here. nagasaki and we knew what had happened during different american english experiments but we didn't realize what it represented and what it would represent

for us it is true that at the time scientists really had no way of knowing for sure and were guided by little more than intuition especially when it came to such an important factor as winds direction which determined whether they would proceed with the test. in the nine hundred sixty s. we didn't have numerical models of weather predictions so we used radio signals at about fifteen sites here the radio signals detected a balloon and by the location of the balloon and we could see the wind altitudes and then we mapped out these fifteen points and once we knew the different altitude levels of the wind the weather forecasters could use the maps to figure out the distribution of different winds in the area. understand the spread of particles that were possibly contaminated with the c p had developed a forecasting model but these models were relatively simple more than they predicted

a certain subject so we had a lot of faith in this trajectory that we now know that the atmosphere was far more chaotic and the margin for error was much bigger than we believed so we must take into account these uncertainties that can after a few hours in fact reach several hundred kilometers. based on evidence from the first experiment on july the second one nine hundred sixty six the mushroom cloud didn't follow the predicted trajectory at all it quickly reached the gumby archipelago and a few hours later hit the learned of man go along with it six hundred inhabitants today we would call this collateral damage it would be forty years before we found out the truth buried in a document classified as top secret at the time. manga riva read. ten by. hour and half an hour and asked for information face to face from the local authorities. it might be necessary to reduce the real figures so as not to lose the

trust of the people who realized that something had been hidden from them after the first blast. to general de gaulle know the truth but was it hidden from him as well whatever the case this is what he had to say a few weeks later in tahiti. as you know all of the arrangements that have been made. disadvantage whatsoever to the dear people. it wasn't until the publication of an official document in two thousand and six that the full extent of the nuclear fallout in french polynesia was revealed. the ministry of defense recorded more than one hundred eighty incidents of nuclear fallout during atmospheric testing from nine hundred sixty six to nine hundred seventy four however this was absolutely useless how did they come to this figure what data was it based on what scientific criteria we used reports from

a nine hundred seventy four blast in tahiti located in one thousand two hundred kilometers from showed that only a part of the island was affected. however thirty eight years later in feb twenty eighth the entire island is considered to have been affected by the radioactive cloud that didn't follow the predicted trajectory. no less serious attitude has been to take us for idiots and then make those that are an idiot seem like idiots we were told long ago that the french nuclear trails were clean said they'd never had any problems. the russians were funny the americans were funny the british were they kept saying these things they thought that we were a bit dead waited. i don't know if it is it but we've studied we know how to read fall and we inform ourselves of what happens around the world the school we

distrust the talk of a colonial power and still hasn't decided whether to discredit us to just be totally complacent towards. what defines a country's success. faceless figures of economic growth. or a factual standard of living. largest consumer of the seas and i see it with me in the country is the federal

government simply saves property of the united states government. the united states privilege listening public has to realize you can't just buy. your own just throw it away. for instance belongs to the universe thieves environmental protection agency i found this on a dump site here this year it's not the way. it produces of these lives when i should be able to collect these though i believe that vision responsible from cradle to grave. fatal to mexico. mental health property will sell to murder incorporated it also belongs to the washington metro area transit of politi properties of a dentist aids page and trademarks. he

came. to. her. in an attempt to make amends the government took steps to raise all traces of the nuclear testing on the island of. their nucleus shelter which in reality was nothing more than an ordinary metal was demolished a few years ago nevertheless twenty three cases of contamination have been recognized officially. headed for. the island of the hub it's the third largest asshole in poland which was chosen as the

advanced support base from iraq four hundred fifty kilometers away. base was dismantled in two thousand and since then the inhabitants have resumed a quiet and peaceful life. but the army returned in two thousand and nine for a large scale cleanup operation that will take seven years and sixteen million euros to complete. it's not going to be an easy task to restore the nature to its pristine condition. in an attempt to distance itself from its reputation the army is trying to be open about the ambitious operation. i don't i mean i thought we're entering into an area where things have been buried underground you know we can see that the first phase of research has been carried out on meaning that the company one has already dug up soil to take test samples. a piece so effectively by doing

this first stage of research we can see the scraps of metal poking out faster in france must turn this page in its history we finished the nuclear tests where we want to turn the page we want everything to be clean and tidy so that we can get back and move on the part of that's all it comes down to we carried out trials we learnt a lot from it not just about the nuclear bomb but also concerning the world of health up until that time we use methods of a bygone era there's no shame in saying that the time we worked in a certain way today the constraints are a lot more sensitive so we're required to pay attention to the environment we're adapting and it's only out of this necessity to adapt so that we're doing this work properly. and how you've got to remember that there was nuclear activity. it was the advanced support base for more at the time of the aerial trials so radioactive materials were handled their russian air revolt sure

planes stationed there it circulated the radioactive cloud. to gather samples and everything was analyzed in how the boats that were contaminated in mara and frank were brought to how decontamination there was to see a lab which analyzed all radioactive substances so it was an attack were a lot of radioactivity was handled. especially those that were heavily contaminated and were brought here by military jets during the eight years of atmospheric testing vultures came to this particular area where we had four stations where they could be decontaminated off it was a simple method wearing full protective clothing cleaner sprayed the aircraft with an emulsion so that all of the radioactive particles that they collected fell to the floor these were then collected and brought back in

a settling tank and the rest of the emotion which was then free from radioactivity was rolled by a worker into the ocean just behind us. of course. all this was done under tight controls. and there were samples taken regularly to ensure that everything going into the ocean was calling in. but all these procedures sufficient to guarantee that the fish staple diet of polynesia is safe for the inhabitants of how to consume this task requires an independent laboratory responsible for monitoring radioactivity in the whole of polynesia both in the air and in the food chain was before he did. not appear this is during the period of atmospheric testing we had these after effects that impacted directly on the entire southern hemisphere because this is then a soon as the test stopped because they quickly descended on the polynesian islands

and atolls around more oh i particular coral and most of the earth which contains corals didn't retain any. of the radioactivity so anything that was dumped on the ground was washed away mostly by rain into the sea today even in how you remember there were a lot of decontamination labs etc if you look for radioactivity in the earth you will find it was there at a given moment but it's since been washed away so these whereas in areas where the earth contains organic matter radioactivity is retained the. in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine before the utah was put back in the hands of the territory there were precautionary measures in check. for example in this noticeable area polls open in may which allow analyses to be taken from the bottom to see the infiltration that there might be between the two concrete slabs.

these core samples were sent back to the mainland and the results were collected. then afterwards by compiling the results we were able to see the exact spot where there was radioactive emission. and we would see that this emission was tiny less than you might find the lender now in britain. nor can it here we can effectively know everything about the area around the legionnaires fifty four and regiment camp i could see the green zone show that there's no pollution whereas the red zone show that pollution has been detected in the lead hydrocarbons. in. different times different customs. it would seem that the army has now developed an environmental conscience. in this pilot project the restoration of one hundred eighty

five is an opportunity to apply new technologies like using bacteria to digest the many. mikkel residues. students seem unconcerned their teachers are weary and have countless questions and they see first we don't know what happened here. and the lake let's not forget what's been bird in the earth here. from what i have seen a lot of things have been removed. but there may be things that we haven't been told about. a victory it's true that when we ask questions like what's been put in the lake in the ocean in the earth many people don't trust palm sincerely to say

i want. these all barrels he'll come with administration is scared as we all are i believe that there is waste in the lake yet in the shade of the it seems there are tankers tracks normally you've got to take all that out you know when people hear that fish comes from how they get scared because that fish from how it's going to be made to. see it here is fine know their air and it's not poison but on the outside they think that the fish from hell is poisoned. and many people have the idea that things are being hidden from us so as soon as you mention the word nuclear there is an immediate suspicion of lies i think that today we are moving away from this way of thinking and people are able to understand this before things needed to be explained a little more and the people who are deemed capable of getting their heads around it in the days of nuclear trials the word environment didn't exist for seasoned

lagoons was simply considered to be the most practical garbage dumps concrete. scrap metal poles of airplanes or trucks were all just thrown in without so much as a second thought to all the waste that was dumped in the lake was not radioactive waste that was maybe polluting like batteries or hydrocarbons which were still in vehicles per se it's more immediately put in the lake so in two thousand and eight in fact there had already been a first sighting of such waste so every habitation project was immediately organized by the country and the community to get rid of all this waste and on the day just debris on the batteries would obviously be taken out without any doubt. material like bits of concrete and it would be done in open view of the country's watch to see that everything was taken out properly and it's got to be seen that life is resumed on top of the waste that the coral is regrown it mustn't badly affect the ecosystem or the environment especially if it's inert and there's no

risk involved in getting it out. reassuring speech from a person tasked with p.r. . the kharkiv pass which is what we call the hotel area an area in deep immersion. there are hundreds of tons of radioactive waste which were put there in the form of drums that went all the way down to the bottom. this is a designated area and another area there was some scrap metal which could be regularly seen slightly emerged in the ocean. these are two identified zones. elsewhere regularly see strong swirls where bits of metal in. and washed up on shore like they have all this will be got rid of and we'll find areas where we can put it the radioactive waste in the hotels will stay there. as it's not part of the rehabilitation project. and they were buried in pits one thousand

five hundred to two thousand meter. deep. in total five hundred seventy tons of contaminated waste including the famous airplanes were thrown into the great blue sea. of more concern for the government was a report published in january twenty seventh but at the very least signals trouble ahead. the atomic energy commission to document included a computer simulation of the possible collapse of parts of morrow atolls crown. hardly surprising considering that one hundred thirty seven blasts took place there . the principle of underground testing is simple the nuclear charges placed in a well dug in between six hundred and one thousand meters deep after the explosion the rock becomes fused which is supposed to keep the radioactivity contained. the

power of the explosion caused a mini earthquake which is clearly visible from the footage taken by controlled cameras. taking into account the twenty eight tests it is the north eastern zone of the at all that is in the greatest danger. if the mass estimated to be about six hundred seventy million cubic meters in size were to collapse it would cause a fifteen to twenty meter high wave followed by a tsunami. there is around one hundred kilometers away travelling at six hundred kilometers per hour the wave would reach the ayatollah in just ten minutes.

to read so close tomorrow so far from the haiti twelve hundred kilometers away. yet here in the united states that's really a pretty astonishing thing when an organization like we're used to doing work on behalf of writers around the world who are subject to censorship. because they know that in china in iran they're going to be jailed for a right they were not used to that here at home and i think that needs to sink in the courts and in the congress to recognize that we really are trading away some fundamental values potentially you know if you do if you're a person under surveillance and you can be free and i think that it's not just beginning to make a connection with people this is a terrible thing to be happening in our country to have this massive system and

really to the world massive system where a few people in complete secrecy can monitor anyone in the world and let's be clear if we look at the obama administration's rationale for who are terrorists they say they don't have to tell you why they declared a certain person a terrorist either so who knows how this information could be used now or in the future against the american people. why is the price of gold so high. demand global demand do you think gold is money. the value of the only place we have to live of the water that we need to survive is not compared to. gold we're not going to eat we're not going to. we're not going to go well clearly. and is in a desperate economic situation absolutely right what we're wrong to do is say there for any kind of economic development from the outside is going to be

a benefit their only purpose is to extract as much money as possible to feed in. to the global financial system. with a heart. to your political economic system that's extremely exploratory to. first of all it's a question where the mining should even be carried out altogether can it be done in a way which doesn't destroy people's was resources environment when you know those are pretty serious questions mining is not a what a moment problem it's happening in asia in africa and south america in central america in mexico and it's even happening in canada and the united states.

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