40 years ago today, the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior was bombed and sunk in Auckland Harbour by French secret service agents. Two blasts destroyed the ship and murdered onboard photographer, Fernando Pereira.⁣ ⁣ The bombing came at the height of the campaign to stop nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific and was an attempt to silence Greenpeace and the anti-nuclear movement in the Pacific that threatened the French nuclear weapons program and colonial power in the Pacific.⁣ ⁣ They failed
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40 years ago today, the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior was bombed and sunk in Auckland Harbour by French secret service agents. Two blasts destroyed the ship and murdered onboard photographer, Fernando Pereira.⁣ ⁣ The bombing came at the height of the campaign to stop nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific and was an attempt to silence Greenpeace and the anti-nuclear movement in the Pacific that threatened the French nuclear weapons program and colonial power in the Pacific.⁣ ⁣ They failed
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