Peace, power & politics : how New Zealand became nuclear free /
Peace, power and politics
Maire Leadbeater.
- 344 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 27 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Setback to nuclear-free hopes-- Nuclear warships-- The nuclear power debate-- The rising tide of protest-- Pacific grass roots movements-- Local body action-- No room for compromise-- Helen Caldicott galvanises the movement-- The warships onslaught-- Bases exposed: Black Birch, Harewood and Tangimoana-- 1984: Seeing off the last of the warships-- Nuclear-free election victory-- The Buchanan debacle-- The Rainbow Warroir-- Self-determination for some but not others-- ANZUS at an end, but its trace remains-- UN International Year of Peace: educating the next generation-- Nuclear Free Zone bill finally passes - but Aotearoa still hosts US bases-- 1987 elections in Fiji and in New Zealand-- For self-reliant defence and against frigates-- Waihopai-- Nuclear-free National Party?-- The first Gulf War-- The 1990s - no peace without justice-- The World Court Project:"Principled audacity"-- More French nuclear tests-- Introduction-- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. Conclusion-- Appendix: Kanaky/ New Caledonia.
"This is a story of how ordinary people created a movement that changed New Zealand's foreign policy and our identity as a nation. The story of peace activism from our pre-recorded history to 1975 was told in Peace People: A history of peace activities in New Zealand (1992) by Elsie Locke. In this new book her daughter Maire Leadbeater takes the story up to the 1990s in an account of the dramatic stories of the colourful and courageous activist campaigns that led the New Zealand government to enact nuclear-free legislation in 1987. Politicians took the credit, but they were responding to a powerful groundswell of public opinion. In this country nuclear disarmament has become part of our communal psyche to a greater extent than in any other western-aligned nation, but when politicians choose pragmatism over principle in foreign policy, peace and justice suffer. Peace activism is an ongoing story"--Publisher information.