Stop French Testing badge

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Title

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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Format

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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