There are some gray cards on the table. One of them seems to crack under the amount of hidden documents. All around the thread has dissolved. There are reports, letters, summary sheets, sketches… Some of them have a history of more than sixty years. “Très secret” in big red letters, however, alerts the reader to the nature of the exchanges. They tell the secret military history of nuclear testing in Polynesia.
The texts are typewritten on onion paper from another era, fragile and translucent. “Don’t put too many fingers on it”, jokes historian Marion Southe, Curator of Heritage at the Defense Historical Service (SHD), introducing these boxes, selected from over six hundred. Call numbers indicate which archive. We are reading. “General Headquarters of the Army”.. Or, the sibyl. “13R132/1”. Or. “GR13R169/2”. The “/2” symbol means that the documents are not…
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Source: Le Figaro
I am David Wyatt, a professional writer and journalist for Buna Times. I specialize in the world section of news coverage, where I bring to light stories and issues that affect us globally. As a graduate of Journalism, I have always had the passion to spread knowledge through writing.