France, Jan. 31 -- "It started with my grandmother. She had thyroid cancer during the Nineties. Then her first child, my auntie, had thyroid cancer too."

Hinamoeura Morgant-Cross was a child in Tahiti when France last exploded a nuclear bomb. She has few memories of the years when her home was a testing ground, but they have changed the course of her life.

"My mum had thyroid problems... And also, my sister had thyroid problems. She has to take medication for the rest of her life. My auntie also got breast cancer a few years ago.

"And I have had chronic myeloid leukaemia since I was 24 years old."

France tested nuclear weapons in Polynesia for 30 years. The explosions started in 1966, after France had already tested several bombs in t...