You can’t sink a rainbow
10 July 1985, 11.38pm, a bomb explodes under the Rainbow Warrior making a hole the size of a car. This first act of terrorism on New Zealand soil killed Fernando Pereira, a Dutch photographer for Greenpeace, and sparked worldwide outrage that stopped the nuclear testing that the Rainbow Warrior was supposed to protest against.
In July 1985, Greenpeace had just renovated the Rainbow Warrior. It was fully ready to fulfill an important mission: stopping French nuclear testing in Moruroa, a French Atoll. A whole French special service team came to New Zealand to stop Greenpeace’s plans for a peaceful protest. One of those even worked at Greenpeace office as a volunteer and secretly investigated. Read more »




