France to pay nuclear test victims

Aljazeera | Mar. 24, 2009 (News Report)

France carried out 210 tests in the Sahara Desert and the South Pacific, including Mururoa and Fangataufa, French Polynesian islands, from 1960 to 1996.

Pierre Leroy, a French army veteran, said he was present when a nuclear test misfired in the Sahara in 1962.

"We were 19, 20 years old. They told us, 'There are no risks, it's not dangerous'. There were no precautions," he said.

Staff who took part in the French tests, as well as ... Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Mar. 25, 2009

The story is scant on the extent of the health problems and the degree of the previous stonewalling of requests for help. The mothers with multiple "jellyfish" miscarriages cannot be adequately compensated.

The Canadian video "Children of Armageddon" from Cinefete forcefully portrays the widespread problem of nuclear weapon effects, including the French testing in Polynesia, the British testing, and American testing on populations in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Highly recommended.

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