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

In recent months, the viability of France's nuclear arsenal has been making headlines with talk of a French “nuclear umbrella ...

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

Gavin Smith, 69, served in the navy in 1973 when Prime Minister Norman Kirk sent two frigates and 500 men on a sea-borne protest to nuclear testing at a French Polynesian atoll. It was at Mururoa ...

A French parliamentary report released on Tuesday called for Paris to apologise to French Polynesia for decades of nuclear ...

Roxanne Panchasi has previously received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Simon Fraser University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA ...

Paris should apologise to French Polynesia for the fallout of nuclear tests there over three decades, which led to harmful radiation exposure, a French parliamentary report released on Tuesday ...

The alleged activity took place on Monday near the remote atoll of Okinotori in the Philippine Sea roughly halfway between Taiwan and Guam. China has said it does not constitute an island. Japan's ...