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    Moruroa (redirect from Mururoa atoll)
    Moruroa (Mururoa, Mururura), also historically known as Aopuni, is an atoll which forms part of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia in the southern...
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  • atmospheric nuclear testing at Mururoa atoll while the case was being heard by the Court. However, the French ignored this ruling. Mururoa was the site of numerous...
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    site to replace Reggane and In Ecker in the Algerian Sahara. Along with Mururoa, it was formally ceded to France by the Territorial Assembly in 1964. The...
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  • weapons tests in the areas of Reggane and In Ekker in Algeria and the Mururoa and Fangataufa Atolls in French Polynesia, from 13 February 1960 through...
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  • Mururoa e Tatou ("Mururoa and Us") is an anti-nuclear non-governmental organisation in French Polynesia. The association represents former workers at...
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    above-ground tests of hydrogen bombs, which could not be done in Algeria. Mururoa and Fangataufa in French Polynesia were chosen that year. President Charles...
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    Epistocavea mururoa is a species of crabs in the family Xanthidae, the only species in the genus Epistocavea. Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot & Peter J...
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    on Tahiti in 1960. On 17 July 1974, the French did a nuclear test over Mururoa Atoll, codenamed Centaure [fr], but the atomic cloud and fallout didn't...
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    CIA mission – U-2 reconnaissance flight – 1964 French nuclear test on Mururoa Atoll". kristinhillartist.com. Archived from the original on 20 August...
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    the decision of the French government to pursue nuclear experiments at Mururoa. The test occurred on 27 December 1995. In August 2010, at the age of 56...
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    After conducting a controversial final series of six nuclear tests on Mururoa in the South Pacific, the French signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty...
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    yachts protesting French nuclear testing at the Mururoa Atoll. During previous nuclear tests at Mururoa, protest ships had been boarded by French commandos...
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  • staged creative and controversial protests around the testing site at Mururoa Atoll, took the Free Your Mind award for its campaign against the underground...
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    It was used to house the military support base for the nuclear tests on Mururoa. Because of its shape, French explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville named...
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    environmental groups – insisted upon the resumption of nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia in 1995, a few months before signing the Comprehensive...
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    into open ocean towards Mururoa. At Mururoa Fri maintained a 53-day vigil within the test exclusion zone, just outside Mururoa Atoll and in sight of the...
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    newly independent Algeria. France's testing program then moved to the Mururoa and Fangataufa Atolls in the South Pacific. In November 1967, an article...
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  • location of the shot due to its isolation in respect to the main base on Mururoa. The device was suspended from a large hydrogen filled balloon. It was...
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  • error. The French Army detonates a 914 kiloton thermonuclear device in the Mururoa Atoll. It is the fifth in a series that started on June 15 in their program...
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    nuclear tests. In Fiji, anti-nuclear activists formed an Against Testing on Mururoa organization. In the Basque Country (Spain and France), a strong anti-nuclear...
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    BBC News. 2019. Retrieved 29 July 2019. Roche, Jean-Michel. "La Marine à Mururoa". netmarine.net (in French). Retrieved 24 October 2014. "Porte-avions Clemenceau"...
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    nuclear testing at the Mururoa Atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago of French Polynesia. During previous nuclear tests at Mururoa, protest ships had been...
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    New Zealand Navy frigate to protest against French nuclear testing on Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific. It was decided that a cabinet minister should...
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    undergoing eye surgery. July 20 – France resumes nuclear bomb tests in Mururoa Atoll, over the protests of Australia and New Zealand. July 21 – Lillehammer...
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    served as a logistical staging base for French nuclear testing activity in Mururoa, approximately 400 kilometers away. During this time, the French military...
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  • led a flotilla of yachts protesting against French nuclear testing at Mururoa Atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago of French Polynesia and was about to depart...
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  • Polynesian teacher, unionist, and anti-nuclear campaigner. He was president of Mururoa e Tatou from its foundation until his death. He was a grandson of French...
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    Caledonia. Greenpeace's attempts to monitor French nuclear testing on Mururoa were halted by the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior. The Second Sudanese...
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    Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia. Tematagi's nearest neighbour is Mururoa, which is located 161 kilometres (100 miles) to the ESE. Tematagi is a...
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    deployments and took part in a protest against French nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll in 1973. The protest voyage was opposed by the National Party Their...
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