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Friday, November 09, 2012
旅遊南太平洋大溪地及其它法屬波利尼西亞島嶼 (三) / Travel to Tahiti & Other Polynésie française Islands in the South Pacific Ocean (3)
I just posted on YouTube, a video clip entitled: 誘人的玻利尼西亞/大溪地舞孃; A Seductive Polynesian / Tahitian Woman Dancer; Une danseuse Polynésienne / Tahitienne
I enjoyed the amazing performance of this beautiful dancer while visiting the Moorea island, which is just across the water from Tahiti.
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How far from the French nuclear test site？
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The French nuclear testing site was Moruroa which is located about 1,250 kilometres (780 mi) southeast of Tahiti. The following are some related info.
1. SINKING OF GREEN PEACE'S RAINBOW WARRIOR BY FRENCH INTELLIGENCE SERVICES:
The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, codenamed Opération Satanique, was an operation by the "action" branch of the French foreign intelligence services, the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE), carried out on July 10, 1985. It aimed to sink the flagship of the Greenpeace fleet, the Rainbow Warrior in the port of Auckland, New Zealand, to prevent her from interfering in a nuclear test in Moruroa.
Fernando Pereira, a photographer, drowned on the sinking ship. Two French agents were arrested by the New Zealand Police on passport fraud and immigration charges. They were charged with arson, conspiracy to commit arson, willful damage, and murder. As part of a plea bargain, they pleaded guilty to manslaughter and were sentenced to ten years in prison, of which they served just over two.
The scandal resulted in the resignation of the French Defence Minister Charles Hernu.
(source: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Warrior_bombing)
2. FRENCH NUCLEAR WEAPON TESTING:
There are 210 tests by official count (50 atmospheric, 160 underground), four atomic atmospheric tests at C.E.S.M. near Reggane, 13 atomic underground tests at C.E.M.O. near In Ekker in the then-French Algerian Sahara, and nuclear atmospheric tests at Fangataufa and nuclear undersea tests Moruroa in French Polynesia. Additional atomic and chemical warfare tests took place in the secret base B2-Namous, near Ben Wenif, other tests involving rockets and missiles at C.I.E.E.S, near Hammaguir, both in the Sahara.
(Source: Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_testing)
3. Mururoa
Mururoa, and its sister atoll Fangataufa, were the site of extensive nuclear testing by France between 1966 and 1996, as well as the site of numerous protests by various vessels, including the Rainbow Warrior. The atoll was officially established as a nuclear test site by France on September 21, 1962, when the Direction des Centres d'Experimentation Nucleaires (DIRCEN) was established to administer the nuclear testing. This followed with the construction of various infrastructures on the atoll commencing in May 1963. The atoll of Hao, 245 nautical miles (450 km; 280 mi) to the north-west of Mururoa, was chosen as a support base for the nuclear tests and other operations.
Despite objections from some 30 members of the Polynesian Territorial Assembly, the first nuclear test was conducted on July 2, 1966, code named Aldebaran, when a plutonium fission bomb was exploded in the lagoon. Greenpeace stated that it sucked all the water from the lagoon, "raining dead fish and mollusks down on the atoll", and it spread contamination across the Pacific as far as Peru and New Zealand. President Charles de Gaulle himself was present at Moruroa on 10 September 1966 when a test was conducted suspended from a balloon. …. A total of 41 atmospheric nuclear tests were conducted at Mururoa between 1966 and 1974.
France abandoned nuclear testing in the atmosphere in 1974 and moved testing underground in the midst of intense world pressure which was sparked by the New Zealand Government of the time, which sent two frigates, HMNZS Canterbury and Otago, to the atoll in protest for a nuclear free Pacific. …. French president Jacques Chirac’s decision to run a nuclear test series at Mururoa on 5 September and 2 October 1995, just one year before the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty was to be signed, caused worldwide protest, including an embargo of French wine. Riots took place across Polynesia, and the South Pacific Forum threatened to suspend France. These tests were meant to provide the nation with enough data to improve further nuclear technology without needing additional series of tests. The test site at Mururoa was dismantled following France’s last nuclear test to date, detonated on January 27, 1996, but the atoll is still guarded by the French Forces. In total, 181 explosions took place at Moruroa and Fangataufa, 41 of which were atmospheric. However, the total number has been variously reported, nuclear scientists working at the site claim 175 explosions in total took place in Pacific …"
(source: Moruroa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moruroa)
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