Future of the test ban treaty. In January 1996, France conducted its last nuclear test by detonating a 120-kiloton bomb underground in the South Pacific. In September, France added its signature ...

From the 1960s to the 1990s, France detonated almost 200 nuclear bombs in French Polynesia – a scattered Pacific island territory thousands of kilometres east of Australia – including 41 ...

France's parliament has called on the government to apologize for nuclear tests France conducted in the South Pacific for three decades and amend the compensation law for residents suffering ...

In 1974, a radioactive cloud from a French nuclear test drifted over Teahupo’o, Tahiti, now the surfing venue for the Paris Games. Villagers still feel the effects.

Overview of Nuclear Waste Management in France “The French policy is that we should not leave the burden of our [nuclear] waste to future generations: that means we are obliged today to develop ...

In 2010, the French government passed the Morin law ostensibly aimed at addressing the suffering of those significantly harmed by radiation during France's nuclear weapons detonations from 1960 ...