Testimony, Memory and Nuclear Justice
Nuclear history survives not only in official files but in voices, families, literature, photographs, films and community memory. These resources foreground experiences that state archives often struggle to contain.
French Polynesia
DSCEN — Documentation and Resources
Scientific and historical material alongside testimony, audiovisual sources and literary works.
A centre organised around understanding, bearing witness and questioning the nuclear past.
Moruroa Memorial
Official documents brought together with photographs, testimony and records preserved by former workers and Polynesian organisations.
The Marshall Islands
Marshall Islands Story Project — Nuclear Survivors
Stories of Bikini and Rongelap elders on testing, fallout, islands, families and displacement.
AtomicAtolls — Interview Archive
Audio interviews with Marshallese downwinders, with photographs, government documents and UN testimony.
Marshallese Educational Initiative — Nuclear Legacy Week
Survivor testimony, art, education and contemporary advocacy as a living archive of nuclear justice.
Kazakhstan
Qazaq Nuclear Frontline Coalition — Working Paper
Community evidence connected to victim assistance, environmental remediation and the TPNW.
JARA — Radioactive Patriarchy: Women of Qazaqstan
A documentary centring women’s gendered and intergenerational experiences of nuclear harm.
From Harm to Justice
Community knowledge and needs assessment translated into questions of victim assistance and remediation.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum — Survivor Testimonies
Video testimony recorded from hibakusha, including material with English subtitles.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Global Network
Memoirs, diaries, letters, family accounts and recorded survivor testimony.
Literature as counterarchive
Titaua Peu — Mūtismes
Literature confronting silence, colonialism and the French nuclear presence in Polynesia.
Anaïs Maurer — The Ocean on Fire
Pacific literature, songs and art treated as knowledge about nuclear colonialism and environmental destruction.
Mariko Nagai — Irradiated Cities
Photography and fragmented text moving through Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Fukushima.
Australia: Country, testimony and the Black Mist
Maralinga: The Anangu Story
A community history of British nuclear testing told from the perspective of affected Aboriginal communities.
ARPANSA and the Maralinga Tjarutja People
Environmental monitoring combined with truth-telling about Country, contamination, dispossession and return.
Activism as memory
Pacific Manuscripts Bureau — Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Collections
Movement publications preserving anti-nuclear, decolonial and Indigenous political histories across the Pacific.