| TITLE: |
Under a cloud of secrecy : the French nuclear tests in the Southeastern Pacific / by Willuam H. Zucker |
| KEY TITLE: |
Ambio : a Journal of the human environment. |
| ADDED TITLE: |
Ambio : a Journal of the human environment. |
| AUTHOR: |
Danielsson, Bengt |
| PUBLISHED: |
1984. |
| DESCRIPTION: |
336-341 pp.: maps ; 30 cm. |
| NOTES: |
In: Ambio : a Journal of the human environment, vol.13:5-6, 1984. |
| NOTES: |
The use of the Pacific as a testing ground for nuclear weapons is perhaps one of the darkest chapters in the history in the entire Region. Before the partial test ban treaty wnet into effect in 1963, the US has tested at least 103 nuclear bombs in the Region. |
| NOTES: |
After 1963, however, the Americans, British and Soviets moved their nuclear testing programs out of the Pacific permanently. |
| NOTES: |
Today, ony the French insist on testing their nuclear bombs in the Pacific, on two Polynesian islands: Moruroa anf Fangataufa. Since 1966 the French have exploded at least 105 bombs.The devastation caused by the testing is a continuing source of contreversy in the South Pacific. |
| NOTES: |
But relevant fallout data from all the test have never been made pubic by the French government and the actual extent of the contamination of French Polynesia and its neighbors from radioactive fallout remain unknown. |
| SUBJECT: |
Nuclear weapons testing--Southeastern Pacific. |
| SUBJECT: |
Oceania. |
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