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Stop French Testing badge

Stop French Testing badge
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Stop French Testing badge
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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Collection
Te Papa Collections Online
Description

This badge was made to be worn in protest against French nuclear testing in the Pacific. Between 1966 and 1996, the French carried out about 190 nuclear tests at Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls in French Polynesia. These caused reef damage, landslides, subsidence, radioactive emissions, and fish poisoning. The badge's image rewards close inspection – it combines the French flag, and its patriotic colours of blue, white and red, with a mushroom cloud blasting the palm trees of a Pacific atoll – ...

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Image
Date created
early 1980s
Creator
Greenpeace
URL
https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/775215
Related subjects
Nuclear weapons testing / Islands / metal / paper / ink / badges / printing / France / New Zealand

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