item details
NamePoster, 'Stop French N Tests'
ProductionGreenpeace; publisher; early 1980s; New Zealand
Classificationpolitical posters
Materialspaper, ink
DimensionsOverall: 308mm (width), 436mm (height)
Registration NumberGH024564
Credit lineGift of the Estate of Ron and Carmen Smith, 2015
Overview
This poster was made by Greenpeace in protest against French nuclear testing in the Pacific.
Between 1966 and 1996, France carried out about 190 nuclear tests at Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls in French Polynesia. These caused reef damage, landslides, subsidence, radioactive emissions, and fish poisoning.
Greenpeace
Greenpeace was founded in 1971 in response to nuclear weapons testing by the United States. In 1972, Greenpeace held its first protest against French testing at Moruroa.