Primary Sources and Counterarchives

Official and legal archives

International Court of Justice — Nuclear Tests (Australia v France)
The primary record of Australia’s 1973–74 challenge to French atmospheric testing, including pleadings, hearings and the 1974 judgment.

International Court of Justice — Nuclear Tests (New Zealand v France)
The parallel New Zealand proceedings and legal arguments on atmospheric testing, fallout and environmental harm.

Mémoire des hommes — Archives of Nuclear Testing in French Polynesia
A portal to French state holdings across the national, military, diplomatic, photographic and atomic-energy archives.

Service historique de la Défense
Military records of the French testing programme, including DIRCEN, Pacific commands, Hao and the Centre d’expérimentations du Pacifique.

Polynesian archives, memory and documentation

Délégation polynésienne pour le suivi des conséquences des essais nucléaires (DSCEN)
Research, testimony and documentation on health, environmental consequences, memory, recognition and compensation.

DSCEN — Research and documentation
Scientific and historical research placed alongside testimony, audiovisual material and cultural works.

Pū Mahara
A Polynesian centre for preserving and interpreting plural memories of French nuclear testing in the Pacific.

Investigation, activism and community memory

The Moruroa Files
Declassified military records reread through interviews, mapping and independent scientific reconstruction.

Pacific Manuscripts Bureau — Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific
Movement publications on nuclear testing, demilitarisation, Indigenous rights, sovereignty and decolonisation.

National Library of New Zealand — Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific collections
Correspondence, speeches, posters, campaign literature and ephemera from Pacific anti-nuclear movements.

Pacific Manuscripts Bureau — Marshall Islands Resource MaterialsRecords on US nuclear testing, militarisation, health, political status and nuclear-free Pacific organising.