France conducted nearly 200 nuclear tests in the South Pacific during the 20th century. Tahitians in the diaspora have been ...

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

The rioting began Sept. 6, the day after France conducted the first of a planned series of nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll, about 750 miles southeast of Tahiti, largest of the French Polynesian ...

The one he chose is about as far from population centers as possible. It is Mururoa atoll, 750 miles southeast of Tahiti in the South Pacific. In the past three years, France has spent $600 ...

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 MYSTERY paradise Island hosting Olympic surfing was once home to human sacrifices and nuclear testing. Tahiti - which means "wall of skulls" in English - has a third gender and sacred spots on ...

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 ...

Only one U-2G mission is known to have been flown, in support of 1964’s Operation Seeker, when a U-2G flew from the Mururoa atoll in the Pacific to monitor a French nuclear test site.

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 ...