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 Author aut Text xx# 2025 Verfassungsblog 2025-11-27 eng
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 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 Portela Giráldez, Ignacio Compensation ECHR EU EU France Frankreich Nuclear Tests Pacific Pacific Islands Polynesia Radiation Levels EU Frankreich Pacific 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/an-atomic-bomb-legacy/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/2996e36128a3fe83 251127 10.59704/2996e36128a3fe83 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)