France has established a $13.5 million fund to compensate people who claimed illness as a result of four decades of nuclear testing in Algeria and French Polynesia. The U.S., Russia and Britain government set up similar programs decades ago, says Robert Alvarez [2]of the Ploughshares-funded Institute for Policy Studies [3], and France’s delay in doing the same "shows how rigid and paranoid the thinking was." Frank von Hippel [4]of the Princeton University [5]commented, "It takes a long time for these things to percolate” before “the government finally deigns a response."