Passing the torch: A history of nuclear survival in the Pacific

From 1946 to 1998 world players in the nuclear armaments industry conducted more than two thousand nuclear test explosions around the world, including more than 310 nuclear tests that were conducted on Indigenous lands and water, in the Pacific region, by the United States, Britain & France.

Protests, direct action campaigns & lobbying against nuclear testing and for the rights of survivors were organised from the 1950s, and continues to this day. Pacific Islands based journalist & researcher Nic Maclellan explains how many of the old-school nuclear testing survivor rights activists are now sadly passing on; but also how there is hope in a new generation who are rising up and taking on that same fight.

Earth Matters #1188 was produced by Nicky Stott & Jan Bartlett