Tag: Nuclear legacy
Seven decades on, Marshall Islands still reeling from nuclear testing legacy
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific Bulletin editor/presenter
The Marshall Islands marked 71 years since the most powerful nuclear weapons tests ever conducted were unleashed over...
Macron hosts French ‘truth and justice’ Pacific nuclear test legacy talks
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter
While a Paris roundtable about the legacy of nuclear tests at Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls is eagerly awaited by...
‘A price they never should’ve paid’: Hiroshima, Nagasaki victims remembered
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
The estimated 226,000 people who lost their lives in the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been remembered in...
Tahitian anti-nuclear advocates mark 51st year since testing began
Pacific Media Watch News desk
Tahitians will today mark the 51st anniversary of the first French nuclear weapons test in the Pacific as advocates still...