The sources at each stage of this cycle can be classified into primary, secondary or tertiary sources.
Primary sources may be described as original works, uninterpreted and unevaluated materials and written by those who witnessed or wrote close to the event, or conducted original research on the topic.
Some of this material is not easily retrieved, but may be found in archival repositories.
In the case of the Rainbow Warrior incident and nuclear testing in the Pacific, examples of primary sources are:
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History
The historian Michael King interviews journalists, police and crew members of Rainbow Warrior.
Acknowledged in his book, Death of the Rainbow Warrior Auckland, N.Z. : Penguin, 1986.
Law/politics
Debate in Parliament
8 July 1986 on the release of French Agents.
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