News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on France grossly underestimated radioactive fallout from atom bomb tests, study. Parent comment

Re:France grossly underestimated radioactive fallout from at... by lostlogin on Friday March 12, 2021 @05:28PM (#26441746)
> because it's in Algeria

Wasn’t it more in the south pacific?

There was a need to underestimate radiation doses so as to undercut our opposition.

When we made the fuss those in power in France took the time to send a military team to bomb a Greenpeace ship in Auckland, killing someone. They followed up with economic sanctions when we caught their amateur operatives, and later gave the soldiers medals for the murder they committed.

Who needs enemies with friends like these?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:France grossly underestimated radioactive fallout from at... by boudin on Friday March 12, 2021 @05:58PM (#26441991)
France did the first tests in Algeria but this is about the ones done at Mururoa, in the pacific indeed.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:France grossly underestimated radioactive fallout from at... by jshmrsn on Friday March 12, 2021 @05:46PM (#26441887)
I had not heard of this before, thanks for bringing it to my attention. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warri...
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:France grossly underestimated radioactive fallout from at... by Bayart on Friday March 12, 2021 @06:37PM (#26442304)
When were we ever « friends » with New-Zealand ? It's not even in NATO. The only relationship we ever had was being part of the so-called West I suppose, although that never prevented us from going to war with our neighbours.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:France grossly underestimated radioactive fallout from at... by lostlogin on Friday March 12, 2021 @06:50PM (#26442399)
I do think you could call the countries friendly toward each other. Plenty of New Zealanders have died fighting in France (though at the bidding of our colonial overlords) and the countries have largely got on outside of this dark period.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:France grossly underestimated radioactive fallout from at... by EdwardDiego on Saturday March 13, 2021 @01:31AM (#26444511)
> When were we ever « friends » with New-Zealand

Usually when the Germans invaded.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Rue+de+la+Nouvelle+Z%C3%A9...

> It's not even in NATO

Article 6 of the North Atlantic treaty kinda prevents Southern Hemisphere countries in the Pacific from joining.

No doubt NZ would have joined in the 60s, 70s, around the same time we had a penchant for getting involved in other people's post colonial wars.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:France grossly underestimated radioactive fallout from at... by a0-prw on Sunday March 14, 2021 @08:15AM (#26454688)
Nato is a tool of the five eyes and the five eyes are a tool of a program of permanent domination and exploitation of the world by Anglo-American "capitalists".
[ Parent | on HN ]