Tag: nuclear tests
Victims and survivors of nuclear testing honoured in Marshall Islands
World Council of Churches
Today is Remembrance Day -- marking the 70th anniversary of the largest US nuclear test detonation, Castle Bravo, which took place...
‘Lots of information isn’t secret, it’s just hard to find’ –...
BOOK CHAPTER: By Nicky Hager
Whistleblower Owen Wilkes was a tireless and formidable researcher for the Pacific, peace and disarmament. Before the internet, he combed...
UNHRC adopts resolution to help Marshall Islands over nuclear legacy
RNZ Pacific
The United Nations Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution aimed at assisting the Marshall Islands to get justice in the aftermath of...
Marshall Islands calls off talks after no US response on nuclear...
By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal and RNZ Pacific correspondent
On the eve of the US Pacific Islands Summit in Washington, a...
NZ should show real solidarity with the Pacific by embracing climate...
COMMENTARY: By Prue Taylor in Auckland
From 1949 to 1996 more than 300 nuclear devices were detonated in the Pacific. In the mid-1990s a generation...
France pays out US$16m on nearly 100 Tahiti nuclear compensation claims
RNZ Pacific
The French nuclear compensation commission CIVEN says that last year it paid out US$16.6 million to victims of France's nuclear weapons tests.
France tested...
Bid for US Congress to acknowledge nuclear tests ‘darkest chapter’ in...
RNZ Pacific
Three members of the United States Congress have introduced a resolution to recognise the legacy of US nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands.
Congresswoman...
French nuclear experts offer reassuring but contradictory ‘clear answers’ to investigative...
ANALYSIS: By Ena Manuireva
Following the publication of the book Toxic some 9 months ago and President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to French Polynesia last July,...
Nine takeaways from the Mā’ohi Nui Lives Matter solidarity rally in...
By Ena Manuireva and Tony Fala
About 35 people joined an Auckland rally last Sunday in solidarity with a Mā'ohi Nui Lives Matter demonstration by...
Case #017 RNZ podcast – The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
On 10 July 1985 the Greenpeace flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, was sunk at an Auckland wharf.
Two French secret agents planted two limpet...
France denies covering-up deadly nuclear tests in French Polynesia
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The French government has denied any cover-up over radiation levels in the Pacific following its nuclear testing in the region, as...
Temaru calls for Tahiti nuclear tests roundtable in New York –...
RNZ Pacific
French Polynesia's pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru says high-level talks on France's nuclear legacy due in Paris this month should be held at the...
Tahitian academic says Paris must pay for impacts of French nuclear...
RNZ Pacific
A Tahitian academic living in Auckland whose family and home island of Mangareva were impacted on by three decades of French nuclear weapons...
The Moruroa Files – how cutting edge science, secret documents and...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Cutting edge nuclear science, a trove of declassified documents, and investigative journalism have exposed the human and environmental impacts of French...
Controversy over renaming Tahiti’s hospital after Chirac amid covid crisis
SPECIAL REPORT: By Ena Manuireva in Auckland
It seems a long time ago - some 124 days - since Mā’ohi Nui deplored its first covid-19...
Echoes of the Rainbow Warrior – have the lessons been learned?
SPECIAL REPORT: The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior happened 35 years ago this year. The event had ramifications across the Pacific, and politicised a...
French nuclear tests: ‘I bury people nearly every day, what was...
By Matthew Scott, reporting for the Pacific Media Centre
The day began with a video, showing a disparate collection of arresting images - the drowned...
Protest marks French Pacific nuclear tests at Moruroa anniversary
By RNZ Pacific
A sit-in has been held outside the French High Commission in French Polynesia to commemorate the 54th anniversary of the first nuclear...