What happened Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior?
In 1985, French secret service agents planted two bombs and sank our ship the Rainbow Warrior. One crew member was killed. The Greenpeace ship the Rainbow Warrior is moored in Auckland, New Zealand – ready to confront French nuclear testing in the Moruroa Atoll. It’s close to midnight.
Why did the bombing of Rainbow Warrior happen?
Background to the bombing. At the time of the bombing, the Rainbow Warrior was about to lead a group of anti-nuclear testing vessels into the Pacific. The Rainbow Warrior was about to lead a flotilla of anti-nuclear testing vessels to Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia.
What was the Rainbow Warrior trying to protect?
Rainbow Warrior was a Greenpeace boat active in supporting a number of anti-whaling, anti-seal hunting, anti-nuclear testing and anti-nuclear waste dumping campaigns during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Where was Rainbow Warrior sunk?
Matauri Bay
Who was the captain of the Rainbow Warrior?
Peter Willcox
What is the meaning Rainbow Warrior?
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English ˌRainbow ˈWarrior a ship belonging to the organization Greenpeace, used for getting information about activities harmful to the environment and trying to prevent them.
Why did the French test nuclear weapons in the Pacific?
Riots took place across Polynesia, and the South Pacific Forum threatened to suspend France. These tests were meant to provide France with enough data to improve further nuclear technology without needing additional series of tests.
Where did France test its nukes?
On 13 February 1960, France conducted its first nuclear test, code-named “Gerboise Bleue” (Blue Desert Rat). The day marked the beginning of a series of four atmospheric nuclear tests at the Reganne Oasis, in the Sahara Desert of Algeria.
What happened at Maralinga?
On 27 September 1956 Britain conducted its first test at Maralinga. Britain conducted 12 major trials of nuclear devices across the three sites. Some resulted in mushroom clouds reaching heights of 47,000 feet (14,325 metres), and radioactive fallout blown by wind was detected as far away as Townsville.
Is maralinga safe now?
Maralinga has long been declared safe. There are even plans to open up the site to tourism. But it was only a few months ago that the last of the land was finally handed back to the Aboriginal people.
Is Woomera radioactive?
Ten thousand barrels of radioactive waste stored at Woomera in South Australia’s far north have no significant levels of radiation, according to the latest assessment from Australia’s leading scientific research agency.