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Ron Hepworth - 20 Years After Sailing to Mururoa Atoll to Protest the Nuclear Bomb Testing

Published: Oct. 7, 2015, 11:12 p.m.

b'It is the 20th year anniversary of the yacht flotilla to the Mururoa atoll to halt French Nuclear tests. New Zealand has always been an outspoken critic of Nuclear testing and nuclear weapons. In total, 175 explosions took place at Moruroa and Fangataufa, in French Polynesia - 41 of which were atmospheric. In 1973,the New Zealand and Australian governments took France to the International Court of Justice in an attempt to ban the tests. France ignored the court\\u2019s ruling that they cease testing.'