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The Pacific: Paradise No More

            To me paradise is a place where you can relax and be hypnotised by the beautiful surroundings. Eat luxurious food and bathe in the tropical waters of a clear blue lagoon. Where you go to revive your body, mind and spirit and spend intimate times with the land. But what if the fish you ate that day, had somehow been poisoned by nuclear waste. The lagoon you swam in after lunch had once been covered in nuclear fallout, and the neighbouring island you woke up to that morning, was a place where nuclear weapons were being tested. If you think that sounds like something out of a science fiction movie then think again, its not. These sorts of scenarios are happening everyday somewhere in the pacific. For over 30 years, France, The United Kingdom and The United States of America have carried out hundreds of tests in four main areas of the Pacific. .
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             From 1946 to 1988 an astounding 99 atmospheric nuclear tests and 203 other nuclear tests (either underground or underwater) were being carried out in the pacific1. Monte Bello Islands and Maralinga in Australia, Bikini and Enewetak Islands, Christmas Island and Moruroa Atoll all were being contaminated by nuclear waste in one way or another. All the while stories of sinking submarines in the Pacific carrying nuclear-armed missiles, were hitting the front pages of the worlds newspapers. Conspiracy theories were being formed, boats were being sunk and the pacific people were protesting. But to no avail France alone managed to conduct 172 nuclear tests, managing to destroy a precious part of the Pacific, the Moruroa Atoll. Thanks to the French the whole underneath of Moruroa has unnatural cracks, fissures and submarine slides. Most scientists believe it's only a matter of time before Moruroa crumbles into the sea2. Many more stories like these scatter the political history of the Pacific but what is even more distressing, is that innocent people are getting hurt in the process and may continue to for thousands of years into the future.


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