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Between 1966 and 1996 the France conducted one hundred ninety-three nuclear tests in French Polynesia, forty-six of which carried out in the atmosphere, over the inhabited atolls of Mururoa e Fangataufa. Today the consequences of these tests on the health of those who suffered them (these are local populations and thousands of military and civilians who took part in them) are not yet fully known and remain the subject of controversy.
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