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

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...