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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Australian protest ketch Warana slipped out of Melbourne at dusk yesterday on an 11,000-mile mission to try to halt the French ...

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 ...

It’s been 25 years since almost 100 Kiwis braved high seas, wild winds and French military to protest the French nuclear testing at the Mururoa Atoll in 1995. The protest stirred up enough ...

Unexpectedly high levels of radioactive contamination are being discovered in French Polynesia almost a decade after nuclear testing ended on Mururoa Atoll, says the territory's President ...

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 ...