Bombing Rainbow Warrior: French bid to cover up N-tests

On July 10, 1985, the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior, sailing to Moruroa Atoll to protest against French atmospheric nuclear-weapons tests there, was sunk by two bomb explosions while berthed in Auckland Harbour, New Zealand.

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