nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/2996e36128a3fe83 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 251127s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/2996e36128a3fe83 doi eng 342 23 Portela Giráldez, Ignacio Author aut How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb Legacy - France’s Revamped Presence in the Pacific Must First Make Amends with its Nuclear Past Portela Giráldez, Ignacio Verfassungsblog 2025-11-27 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The Pacific is becoming the most important geostrategic hotspot in the world. European powers are struggling to keep up, and have recently deployed naval forces to contain China. Yet, given the Polynesia’s nuclear past, where France conducted decades of nuclear weapon testing and hundreds of thousands of EU citizens still await compensation for radioactive fallout, addressing this legacy and providing adequate redress to affected military and civilian population is mandatory for any French or European attempts to legitimise their presence in the Pacific. CC BY-SA 4.0 Compensation ECHR EU EU France Frankreich Nuclear Tests Pacific Pacific Islands Polynesia Radiation Levels (DE-588)10290611-7 gnd EU (DE-588)4018145-5 gnd Frankreich (DE-588)10285866-4 gnd Pacific Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/an-atomic-bomb-legacy/ raw object