Effects of underground nuclear tests in French Polynesia on the stability of atoll flanks

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-31
Author(s):  
B. Damjanac ◽  
E. Detournay ◽  
H. Huang
Keyword(s):  
French Polynesia ◽  
Nuclear Tests ◽  
The Stability

Godzilla (1998) as camp de-extinction narrative

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-314
Author(s):  
Carter Soles
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New York City ◽  
Human Action ◽  
French Polynesia ◽  
American City ◽  
Master Narrative ◽  
Spawning Ground ◽  
Popular Cinema ◽  
Nuclear Tests

Godzilla is one of the most famous de-extinct monsters in global popular cinema. Fan loyalty to the original Toho Studios conception of the creature as a super-powered, dinosaur-like creature helps explain the negative response to Roland Emmerich’s 1998 Hollywood version, which re-imagines Godzilla as a giant, irradiated twentieth-century iguana. Emmerich’s film is plotted around the monster’s attempt to use subterranean New York City as a spawning ground. The creature lays eggs that later hatch into baby Godzillas that look suspiciously like Jurassic Park-style velociraptors. Indeed, the movie plays like an expanded version of the last twenty minutes of The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997): a dinosaur-like creature runs amok in a major American city and is eventually defeated by a plan involving its offspring. Emmerich’s Godzilla is famous for being ‘Godzilla in name only’, yet its extensive intertextuality with The Lost World foregrounds de-extinction themes and imagery. Furthermore, Godzilla (1998) emphasises human action - in this case, 1950s French nuclear tests in French Polynesia - as the cause of the mutant creature’s emergence. Humans causing de-extinction is a key feature of the entire Godzilla franchise and of similar creature features from the 1950s to the present. Akin to its 1950s predecessors, Godzilla’s light, intentionally (and sometimes unintentionally) comedic tone open it to camp readings of the kind analysed by Bridgitte Barclay, who writes that the narrative and aesthetic shortcomings of schlocky sf B movies ‘disengage the audience from the filmic world and expose the mechanics of storytelling, making the master narrative a story and thereby resisting it by showing it as such’. Godzilla does just that, deflating its own anthropocentrism and rampant pro-militarism via its blatantly derivative story, shoddy digital effects and ham-handed dialogue.

Nuclear Tests in French Polynesia

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabelle Pitrou
Keyword(s):  
French Polynesia ◽  
Nuclear Tests

scholarly journals Reply to Comment on “Asymmetric radiation of seismic waves from an atoll - Nuclear tests in French Polynesia” by A. Douglas

2000 ◽  
Vol 27 (7) ◽  
pp. 1063-1064
Author(s):  
Michael Weber ◽  
Charles W. Wicks ◽  
Frank Krüger ◽  
Gunnar Jahnke ◽  
Jörg Schlittenhardt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Waves ◽  
French Polynesia ◽  
Nuclear Tests

French Polynesia and the French nuclear tests: The submission of John Teariki

1967 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. Davidson
Keyword(s):  
French Polynesia ◽  
Nuclear Tests

scholarly journals Legal Aspects of the French Nuclear Tests

1967 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony A. D’Amato
Keyword(s):  
French Polynesia ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Nuclear Test ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Test Series ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Competing Interests ◽  
Nuclear Tests ◽  
General Community

The question of the legality of France’s nuclear test series, commenced on July 2, 1966, in French Polynesia, will probably stop short of any definitive third-party determination and be subjected only to general community appraisal. Yet even at the level of scholarly or diplomatic argumentation it is important to inquire into the competing interests and legal factors involved in the atmospheric tests. This is true not only because differing political expectations or even measures might depend on the consensus as to the legality or illegality of the French tests, but also because the precedential value of the tests will be of greater or less force depending upon whether there is agreement at the time of the tests that France was or was not acting within her international legal rights.

scholarly journals Bringing Pyongyang Back: the Prospects for Establishing Multilateral Cooperation Mechanism in East Asia

Poliarchia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 7-23
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Batko
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Korean Peninsula ◽  
Northeast Asia ◽  
Republic Of Korea ◽  
Multilateral Cooperation ◽  
Cooperation Mechanism ◽  
Nuclear Tests ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Formal Dialogue

In this interconnected world, the multilateral mechanisms become more and more present and relevant. However, East Asia is a notable exception with no such institutionalised tool. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) remains the most troubling state and the main reason why collaboration has not resulted in strengthening the stability in East Asia. Although a formal dialogue called the Six Party Talks exists, it currently remains in deadlock after two nuclear tests conducted by Pyongyang in 2009. The actions that took place throughout last year have once again drawn greater attention to the Korean Peninsula, raising the possibility of resuming the negotiations. Nevertheless, the question about what this new agenda should include remain relevant. The purpose of this paper is to outline international relations in Northeast Asia from both theoretical and practical perspective and provide ideas on what can be done to facilitate the cooperation between the states.

scholarly journals Thirty-year recovery of mollusc communities after nuclear experimentations on Fangataufa atoll (Tuamotu, French Polynesia)

2015 ◽  
Vol 282 (1810) ◽  
pp. 20150750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Legendre ◽  
Bernard Salvat
Keyword(s):  
Community Composition ◽  
Reef Flat ◽  
Primary Succession ◽  
Environmental Filtering ◽  
French Polynesia ◽  
Tuamotu Archipelago ◽  
Temporal Beta Diversity ◽  
Nuclear Tests ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Harsh Conditions

A 30-year study of temporal changes in gastropod community structure on the reefs of a Pacific Ocean atoll (Fangataufa, Tuamotu Archipelago) subjected to atmospheric nuclear tests during the 1960s offered the opportunity for an otherwise impossible field experiment that could help ecologists understand mollusc primary succession. Reef molluscs were partly or entirely wiped out by the heat of the nuclear tests and the reefs were recolonized by ocean larvae. On all reefs, community composition before the tests was very different from what it evolved to afterwards. A new method of analysis was developed to study the temporal variation in community composition before versus after the tests (temporal beta diversity). Analyses showed that community compositions diverged through time among the reefs. Only some species can survive the harsh conditions of supralittoral zones, so the same species recolonized them; environmental filtering controlled the development of the new communities. In the reef flat and edge zones, differences in community composition seem to be the result of neutral stochastic colonization by larvae coming from the open ocean. All reefs developed a community composition quite different from that before the nuclear tests.

scholarly journals Thyroid cancer following nuclear tests in French Polynesia

2010 ◽  
Vol 103 (7) ◽  
pp. 1115-1121 ◽  
Author(s):  
F de Vathaire ◽  
V Drozdovitch ◽  
P Brindel ◽  
F Rachedi ◽  
J-L Boissin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thyroid Cancer ◽  
French Polynesia ◽  
Nuclear Tests

Health consequences of nuclear tests in French Polynesia

The Lancet ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 346 (8974) ◽  
pp. 576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Hakewill ◽  
Georges Dallemagne ◽  
Douglas Holdstock
Keyword(s):  
French Polynesia ◽  
Health Consequences ◽  
Nuclear Tests
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