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  • In September 1995, France stirred up widespread protests by resuming nuclear testing on the Mururoa atoll after a three-year moratorium.

    Background 2008

  • He sneered at environmental concerns over the Mururoa tests, saying France is pursuing "a policy that aims to defend Bosnians rather than baby seals."

    France Blows It Again 2008

  • In September 1995, France stirred up widespread protests by resuming nuclear testing on the Mururoa atoll after a three-year moratorium.

    French Polynesia 2008

  • It seems ironic to me that the Americans are up the French because of a lack of military input in Iraq and the New Zealanders “have strong negative feelings” toward the French because of an over abundance of Military input in the Pacific … Rainbow Warrior bombing and nuclear testing at Mururoa

    francophobia in the USA 2004

  • Mururoa: 7 no new chemical and biological poisons.

    Joseph Rotblat - Nobel Lecture 1999

  • The South Pacific atoll of Mururoa in French Polynesia was the site of a series of French underwater nuclear bomb tests, which began in 1995 and ended in January 1996. 8.

    Joseph Rotblat - Nobel Lecture 1999

  • Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to conduct a study of the radiological situation at the French nuclear testing sites at Mururoa and Fangataufa Atolls.

    Mururoa And Fangataufa Test Site Study 1996

  • Greenpeace had been playing a cat-and-mouse game with the French navy in an attempt to disrupt plans to carry out eight nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll beginning in September.

    Searching for a women's movement 1995

  • French Navy when it entered the 12-nautical-mile exclusion zone around Mururoa on July 9 as part of the group's protest campaign.

    Searching for a women's movement 1995

  • Mururoa atoll tests were, as French President Jacques Chirac claimed, simply attempts to obtain more data to improve France's nuclear simulation system.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

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