Thirty years ago this week, on an island in the South Pacific, France conducted its final nuclear test – ending a programme that exposed thousands of people to radiation over decades. The islands ...

More than 2,000 nuclear weapons have been tested worldwide to date. The test sites remain contaminated, and many residents are ill. Here is one example from the South Pacific."For 30 years, we were ...

Nuclear weapons testing has affected every single human on the planet, causing at least four million premature deaths from cancer and other diseases over time, according to a new report delving into ...

The overseas French territory, with about 290,000 people, is best known nowadays for its tourist island of Tahiti. "It's with a great sense of duty and determination that we filed a complaint at the ...

EXCLUSIVE: Rachid Bouchareb’s upcoming feature film Reggane, exploring France’s controversial nuclear tests in Algeria’s Sahara Desert in the early 1960s, has sparked interest out of the U.S. and Asia ...

MAJURO, MARSHALL ISLANDS — Lemeyo Abon learned about snow from the movies played on projectors by visiting American sailors. But living on Rongelap — a remote tropical atoll in the central Pacific ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A memorial in Papeete, the capital of Tahiti, commemorates the victims of French nuclear tests in the South Pacific islands of ...