Tag: French nuclear tests
‘Under no illusions’ about France, says author of new Rainbow Warrior book
Pacific Media Watch
The author of the book Eyes of Fire, one of the many publications on the Rainbow Warrior bombing almost 40 years ago...
Legends of NFIP: Former FANG president Vijay Naidu talks Pacific anti-nuclear activism
Pacific Media Watch
An interview with former University of the South Pacific (USP) development studies professor Dr Vijay Naidu, a founding president of the Fiji...
Flashback 1989: Rising storm in the Pacific
On 10 July 2023 -- marking the 1985 bombing of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior -- Television New Zealand began broadcasting a BBC/Oxford Scientific...
Anti-nuclear movements need to return to table, says FANG activist
By Rachael Nath
Securing a nuclear-free region has been a long battle for the Pacific.
After the Second World War, the United States, along with its...
French nuclear testing fallout in Pacific still affecting NZ men decades later
By Jimmy Ellingham
Fifty years ago 242 men left New Zealand on a mission to Moruroa Atoll in French Polynesia.
The crew of HMNZS Otago, and...
Court acquits Tahitian politician Oscar Temaru in anti-nuclear radio case
RNZ Pacific
The Appeal Court in French Polynesia has acquitted the pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru and two others in the case of the funding of...