[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 142 (Wednesday, September 13, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H8812]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            WAKE UP AMERICA

  (Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA. Mr. Speaker, again I say to my colleagues and to 
the American people: Wake up America.
  Mr. Speaker, last week President Chirac of France pushed his nuclear 
button and exploded 1 of 8 nuclear bombs last week that had more power 
than was exploded in the atom bomb in Hiroshima, Japan, 50 years ago. 
Later detonations are expected to follow, each with up to 10 times 
greater destructiveness than the Hiroshima bomb.
  Maybe 10 years from now, when that island atoll in the Pacific, the 
Mururoa Atoll, starts sinking and nuclear contamination enters the 
marine food chain causing secondary fish poisoning, maybe then one day 
the millions of Americans living in Hawaii and the Pacific Coast States 
will say, ``Why did no one tell us about this?''
  Mr. Speaker, France has already exploded 164 nuclear bombs in this 
atoll. What madness. Wake up America. We may also end up the victims of 
French callousness by poisoning our Pacific environment.

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