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Podcast: New Books in Environmental Studies
Episode: SĂ©bastien Philippe and Tomas Statius, "Toxique: EnquĂȘte sur les essais nuclĂ©aires français en PolynĂ©sie" (CompanyĂ©dition PUF/Disclose, 2021)
Description: What happens when you bring together an important collection of previously secret archival documents dealing with France's nuclear detonations in the Pacific from 1966 to 1996, a nuclear scientist, and an investigative journalist? Working together beginning in early 2020, SĂ©bastien Philippe and Tomas Statius, the authors of Toxique: EnquĂȘte sur les essais nuclĂ©aires français en PolynĂ©sie (Presses universitaires de France and Disclose, 2021) have now shared with readers the meaningful and provocative results of just such a collaboration. Revisiting the history of France's nuclear weapons program over a period of three decades (following an initial set of atmospheric and unde...