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Neil Abercrombie: “One would think, would one not, that if it were perfectly safe, that they could conduct this test in the bay at…”

On the recordJanuary 25, 1996
One would think, would one not, that if it were perfectly safe, that they could conduct this test in the bay at Marseille in France? If the tests are perfectly safe, why do they not conduct them in the channel off the French coast? If the tests are perfectly safe, why do not they conduct them in the Mediterranean Sea off the French coast?
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Neil Abercrombie
Hawaii

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Questioning the safety of tests conducted in the ocean during a debate.

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