David McTaggart

摘要

The South Pacific had a fascination for David McTaggart, as it has done for many westerners. Tahiti, New Caledonia, Tonga: he bought a boat, the Vega, and sailed from one evocative landfall to another. In 1972 he heard of, or maybe read about, an organisation called Don't Make a Wave. It was protesting about French nuclear tests on the island of Muru-roa. France had tested its first bombs in the Sahara desert, but in 1966 it had moved its nuclear test site to the more distant Mururoa, an uninhabited island that is part of French Polynesia.