PEA ‘Denise’ in the north zone of the Mururoa Atoll, in the southern Pacific Ocean, where the French military conducted nuclear weapons tests until 1996. The Ministry of Defence has scheduled ...

A parliamentary commission of inquiry is seeking to understand whether the French government underestimated the number of ...

Infrared reflectance spectra from terrestrial lavas from the Mururoa Atoll (French Polynesia) that underwent this precipitation process are similar to those measured for the Noachian crust.

The Mururoa Nuclear Veterans Group Inc is searching for all those who sailed to Mururoa Atoll in 1973 aboard the frigates HMNZS Canterbury and HMNZS Otago. The veterans took part in the Labour ...

The French Government has admitted in the past it's possible the Mururoa atoll could cave in because it has been sapped by the underground tests. The territory is set to embark on a four-year ...

The rocks at Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia contain clay minerals that look like those seen on the Red Planet. But whereas the Martian clays are taken to be the products of weathering of rocks ...

The plume cloud of the nuclear test on Mururoa atoll in July 1973. Photo supplied The attack on a man in his 70s was outside Papakura Intermediate School.

Photo/Bevan Conley Wanganui man Tony Cox wants to build a database of all veterans of Mururoa Atoll and their families. The former president of the now defunct veterans' advocacy group Rimpac is ...

is using spy satellites to keep a constant watch on Mururoa Atoll and nearby Fangataufu Atoll in an attempt to forecast when the next blast will occur. The intelligence has proved so accurate that ...

In 1973 Alister Barry joined the crew of a protest boat (The Fri) to Mururoa Atoll, where the French Government were testing nuclear weapons. Barry records the assembly of the crew, the long ...