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A brief madness: Australia and the resumption of French nuclear testing
- Description:
- In June 1995, the newly elected president of France, Jacques Chirac, announced that his government was planning to conduct a number of underground nuclear tests at the French testing facilities in Polynesia. The announcement sparked public protest around the Asia-Pacific, but nowhere was the anger at Chirac's decision more vigorous or widespread than in Australia. If anger is a 'brief madness', as Horace suggested, then over the winter of 1995, Australia was gripped by such a brief madness: hundreds of thousands of ordinary Australians, from...
- Display date:
- 2020
- Location:
- French Polynesia
- Format:
- book
- Collections:
- Australian National University Library
- Publisher:
- Canberra : Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1997.
- Content partner:
- Australian National University Library
- Availability:
- Not specified
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