Moruroa (Mururoa, Mururura), also historically known as Aopuni, [2] is an atoll which forms part of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is located …

Feb 12, 2022 · While the Americans were testing nuclear weapons at Bikini Atoll, the French were blowing up the tropical atoll of Moruroa in French Polynesia.

Mururoa, atoll at the southeastern tip of the Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia, in the central South Pacific Ocean, about 700 miles (1,125 km) southeast of Tahiti.Uninhabited and used for …

The story of this largely unknown health disaster began on July 2, 1966. On that day, the army carried out the Aldebaran fire, the first of the 193 tests fired from the nuclear atolls of Moruroa …

Jul 4, 2016 · On July 2, 1966 the calm of French Polynesia's Mururoa atoll was shattered by an explosion of unbelievable force. Within a second, the azure tropical sky flashed bright orange, …

Mar 25, 2021 · Those tests substantially affected the environment and health of more than 100 000 people in the region, according to the findings from a recent collaborative study—the …

A 120 kiloton nuclear detonation in July 1979 caused an underwater landslide on Moruroa, released large amounts of radioactivity into the ocean and resulted in a tsunami, wreaking …

Mar 9, 2021 · Moruroa Files: investigation into French nuclear tests in the Pacific France has consistently underestimated the devastating impact of its nuclear tests in French Polynesia in …

Moruroa, also historically known as Aopuni, is an atoll which forms part of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is located about 1,250 …

Moruroa, aussi transcrit en Mururoa [2], [3] et historiquement appelé Aopuni [4], est un atoll de l’archipel des Tuamotu, situé en Polynésie française. Moruroa appartient en pleine propriété à …