FRENCH TESTS
‘No Fall-out On N.Z’
(N.Z. Press Association)
WANGAREI, Feb. 11
No fall-out from the French nuclear tests in the Pacific in July would reach New Zealand, the vice-president of the French National Defence Council (Colonel Pierre Clostermann) said today. Colonel Clostermann, who is on a deep-sea fishing holiday in the Bay of Islands, said from Russell today that it was impossible for the tests to have any effect on New Zealand. The Pacific atolls for the French tests are Mururoa and Fangataufa, 780 miles southeast of Tahiti and 3000 miles from New Zealand.
“There are French people on Tahiti,” Colonel Clostermann said. “If some harm would come to them we would not be testing.” Colonel Clostermann will be about 65 miles away from the tests, observing from a special warship. He was about 25 miles from the last two French nuclear tests in the Sahara Desert in May, 1962, and March, 1963.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30983, 12 February 1966, Page 1
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