Tahiti’s nuclear shadow: Health costs that never ended

Canopus explosion on August 24, 1968, at the Fangataufa atoll. The device was suspended from a balloon and produced a 2.6 megaton yield at a height of 540 metres. Image: Atomic Archive

BY the time the nuclear tests stopped in 1996, the Pacific had already carried the burden for three decades . . .

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