Ivana Hughes

So you hit the nuclear power plant.

It's not the blast and the fireball.

I mean, yes, it is there locally, but that's not what's going to kill the people in LA.

What's going to kill the people in LA is the radiation that's going to spread.

We know something about that because of the bombings from 80 years ago, absolutely.

And I can say a little more about those.

But we also know a whole lot about

about the impact of nuclear explosions on the environment, the impact of radiation on the environment, because Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not the only two or even count Trinity three times.

It's not that we've exploded nuclear weapons three times.

We've exploded nuclear weapons more than 2000 times on this planet.

And that was as part of-

Full nuclear weapons explosions as part of what is referred to as nuclear weapons testing programs.

I was in March at the United Nations, actually, at the third meeting of states parties of a treaty called the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

And I was speaking to...

A woman from French Polynesia where the French tested nuclear weapons.

She's actually a member of the French Polynesian Parliament now.

Her name is Hina Moira Cross.

She's a relatively young woman, I think in her 30s.

She's a mother.

She's had leukemia for many years.