Nuclear Free NZ

1. Nuclear-free New Zealand
Jacob, Ross, Shereen

2. You’re About To Get Blown Away

3. Campaign for Nuclear
Disarmament (CND)
1950’s- New Zealand military
personnel observed British and
American nuclear tests in
Australia, the Pacific and in
Nevada
1959- responding to rising public
concern following these British
hydrogen bomb tests in Australia
and the Pacific, New Zealand
voted in the UN to condemn
nuclear testing

4. Campaign for Nuclear
Disarmament (CND)
1959- The NZ Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is formed in
Christchurch
early 1960’s- CND in New Zealand organized protests regarding
French atmospheric nuclear tests at Mururoa atoll in French
Polynesia
1963- CND organizes a petition “No Bombs South of the Line”
advocating a nuclear-free southern hemisphere

5. Campaign for Nuclear
Disarmament (CND)
1963- British, American and Soviet governments agreed to ban
atmospheric tests with the Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT)
1964- France transfers its testing to Moruroa Atoll, French Polynesia

6. Early 1970s - 3rd
Labour Government
“Independent” foreign policy
Self-reliance
Protests against French nuclear
testing

7. “I believe that to base our foreign
policies on moral principles is the
most enlightened form of self-
interest. What is morally right is
likely to be politically right”
-Norman Kirk

8. 1972-3 - protests
against the
French
The Vega sails into the test
zone
France goes to court
Otago and Canterbury
Other New Zealand yachts sail
in protest

9. 1975-84 - 3rd
National
Government
Defense force, alliances
Close economic relations with
Australia
Asia and Middle East

10. Protests against ship visits
1976 - USS Truxtun and USS Long Beach
1978 - USS Pintado
1979 - USS Haddo
1978 - 32% opposition to nuclear-armed ships
1983 - 72%

11. 1984 - 4th Labour Government
Nuclear free policy

12. “There’s only one thing worse
than being incinerated by your
enemies, and that’s being
incinerated by your friends”
-David Lange

13. 1984 USS
Buchanan
Americans
requested a visit to
NZ by the guided
missile destroyer
“Not nuclear
armed”
“Near-uncertainty
was not now
enough for us”

14. ANZUS

15. ANZUS

16. “New Zealand
is a friend, not
an ally.”
-

17. “Ensure the ability
of the Earth to
nurture life in all its
diversity”

18. Rainbow Warrior

20. Tant pis (too bad)
1985

21. Treaty of Rarotonga - 1985
South Pacific
Nuclear Free Zone
Treaty

22. New Zealand Nuclear Free
Zone, Disarmament, and
Arms Control Act - 1987

23. International
Court of Justice
Rules in favour
of NZ - 1996
France stops nuclear testing in the South
Pacific

24. 2012 - 25 Anniversary of Nuclear
th
Free New Zealand

25. Works Cited
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/politics/nuclear-free-new-
zealand/ship-visits
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/timeline/7/7
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?
c_id=1&objectid=10491916
http://www.recreationaccess.org.nz/files/history_rec_sport.html
http://www.spear.govt.nz/documents/publications/significant-
policy-events-report.pdf