About this episode

The episode discusses France's nuclear test legacy in French Polynesia and features an interview with Hinamoeura Morgant-Cross.

This Week’s Featured Interview: Between 1966 and 1996, France conducted 193 nuclear weapons tests at the Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls in French Polynesia. This included 46 atmospheric tests that caused widespread radioactive fallout across the Pacific, contaminating an estimated 110,000 people —nearly the entire population of the territory at the time. Hinamoeura Morgant-Cross at the...

People in this episode

Host: Libbe Halevy

Guest: Hinamoeura Morgant-Cross

Topics covered

• nuclear tests
• radioactive fallout
• French Polynesia
• nuclear weapons
• TPNW
• environmental impact

Keywords

• nuclear tests
• French Polynesia
• radioactive fallout
• Hinamoeura Morgant-Cross
• TPNW
• nuclear weapons
• environmental impact

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: UN

Places: French Polynesia

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