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Founding members of the committee included Jim and Marie Bohlen, Paul Cote, Irving and Dorothy Stowe. Founding members were prominent in the Society of Friends (Quakers) and the Sierra Club in Vancouver, Canada. The committee initially worked under the aegis of the Sierra Club, however in 1971 when it was announced a protest vessel would travel to the test site, the Sierra Club objected and the committee changed to working independently of the Sierra Club. During meetings in 1970 Bill Darnell combined the words ‘green’ and ‘peace’, thereby giving the organization its first expedition name, and what would later transform into one of the largest global environment organisations, Greenpeace . Many Canadians protested the United States Military underground nuclear bomb tests, codenamed Cannikin, beneath the island of Amchitka, Alaska in 1971. The ''Don't Make a Wave Committee'' first expedition hired the ''Phyllis Cormack'', a halibut seiner available for charter, to take protestors to the testing zone on the island of Amchitka. The expedition was called ''Greenpeace I'', and included Canadian journalist Robert Hunter . Considerable negative publicity for the nuclear tests was generated by the protest. A noted early member of the organisation was Paul Watson , although work and study commitments prevented him from being on ''Greenpeace I''. He was a member of the crew of the chartered relief ship, the former minesweeper ''Edgewater Fortune'', which was renamed the ''Greenpeace Too!''. One day out of Amchitka the United States Atomic Energy Commission exploded a Hydrogen bomb underground a day early on November 6 , 1971 . The United States cancelled a second test. On 4 May , 1972 , following Dorothy Stowe's departure from the chairmanship of the Don't Make A Wave Committee, the fledgling environmental group officially changed its name to the "Greenpeace Foundation". Later that year David McTaggart would sail his yacht, ''Greenpeace III'', to French Polynesia to oppose the French atmospheric nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll , supported by the new Greenpeace Foundation. SEE ALSO
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