30 Jun 2021

Macron to host nuclear test legacy talks

From Pacific Waves

A high-level roundtable on France's nuclear legacy in French Polynesia will be held in Paris this week, aimed at 'turning the page' on the aftermath of the weapons tests.

The two-day Paris meeting was called by the French president Emmanuel Macron in April shortly after a new study about a 1974 atmospheric weapons test caused another wave of outcry.

Joining me is my colleague Walter Zweifel who has been following the builld up to this event.

A picture shows a general view of the hard-surfaced advanced recording base PEA "Denise" in the north zone of the Moruroa (Mururoa) atoll, southern Pacific ocean, where French forces have conducted 138 nuclear weapon tests until 1996, on February 13, 2014.

Photo: AFP

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