Nuclear explosions

Date: 1973

From: [Posters and stickers concerning anti-nuclear protest, nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific. 1970-1979].

By: Palmer, Stanley, 1936-

Reference: Eph-D-NUCLEAR-1973-01

Description: Shows a reproduction of a print of a rocky island. Two copies held. Other Titles - No to French atomic explosions. Ink drawing by Stanley Palmer, New Zealand Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 310 x 550 mm on sheet 455 x 576 mm

Date: 1956

By: Scales, Sydney Ernest, 1916-2003

Reference: A-352-029

Description: Shows two fish talking together as they watch the mushroom cloud rising from a nuclear explosion. There is a pun: "Fission chips" sounds the same as "Fish 'n' [and] chips". Other Titles - All the powers of destruction necessary to blow this planet to pieces are now available. ... Mr Krishna Menon. Other Titles - Otago Daily Times Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 265 x 355 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane (Auckland) Ltd Auction, 18 August 2004, lot 382.

Date: 1962

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to nuclear weapons, nuclear power, anti-nuclear protests]

Reference: Eph-A-NUCLEAR-1962-01

Description: An arrangement of text. Two copies held Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Relief print on yellow flyer, 256 x 150 mm.

Date: 1954

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to nuclear weapons, nuclear power, anti-nuclear protests]

By: Convention on International Relations (1954 : Auckland, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-NUCLEAR-1954-01

Description: Pamphlet issued ahead of the Convention on International Relations in Auckland (on 7-13 September 1954). The front cover shows a photograph of a mushroom cloud over a Pacific setting with palm trees. Inside is a report of a determination by churchmen to hold a convention "to promote international understanding and a worldwide allegiance to the purpose of the Charter of the United Nations". The hope was to reduce and control armaments and meet the challenge of nuclear energy. Urges readers to publicise the event, give financial support and send delegates to the convention. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on folded pamphlet, 220 x 141 mm.

Date: 1984

From: [Posters concerning anti-nuclear protest, nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific. 1980-1989].

By: Clutterbuck, Bob, 1951-; Breadline Posters (Firm)

Reference: Eph-D-NUCLEAR-1984-01

Description: Poster produced in Melbourne shows a head and shoulders drawing of an elderly woman with her chin resting on one hand, at the far right. at the left a man and two boys stand on a beach and in the distance a huge mushroom cloudfills the sky from which rains down fish, other sea creatures, and a statuette. A paragraph of small text recounts an experience and aftermath of the nuclear test explosion on Bikini Atoll on 1 March 1954. Artist and date confirmed on the website of the National Gallery of Australia, Other Titles - Independent Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Screenprint, 500 x 755 mm. Provenance: Donated by Andrea Tangohau, Wellington, in 2013.

Date: 1970 - 1979

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to nuclear weapons, nuclear power, anti-nuclear protests]

Reference: Eph-B-NUCLEAR-1970s

Description: Includes: 1970s: Marinus van der Lubbe International Bombing Society. We believe that if the French Government's French nuclear tests ... [Flier. 1970s?] New Zealand Spartacist League. French tests action; it's only the start! [1970s] (2 copies) Unless peace comes; a seminar. McLaurin Hall Aucklanf 1969 or 1975 (With speakers Graham R White, Dr W G Whittlestone, Dr M Stenson, G von Sturmer, Dr W Quigley. 19 April [1969 or 1975]. Yellow programme / flier and report of seminar 1971: Petition by Mr Guy A Allan and 2762 others. 23 August 1971. (6-page document on yellow paper) Barry Mitcalfe. "Nuclear testing: its implications for health" [1971?] (2 copies) 1972: Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem [1972]. Flier Peace Media News. 1945 bombing still kills (3 yellow sheets) Let's stop it; stop French tests. Citizens silent non-violent march on Parliament, 6 July [1972] (2 copies) This last arrogant obscenity ... the French government has defied the world [1972]. Flier (2 copies, 1 green, 1 white) Nuclear silence [Appeal to join a protest. Parliament grounds, 5 July [1972]. White flier Radio Hauraki. [Petition form urging stronger action against French testing. 1972] Wellington Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament. [1972]. Flier 1973: Auckland Workers Educational Association. Seminar. The nuclear threat & New Zealand's responses. 28 April 1973. Green flier (2 copies) Peace Media. "Boats against the Bomb" [1973?] Peace Media. "L'Union des Femmes Neo-Zelandaises contre les Explosions Nucleaires". [Circular letter in French. 1973?] Peace Media [Fliers] 1974: Fri Peace Odyssey Committee. Flier 1975: Coordinated Action Against French Tests (CAAFT). Appeal for pledge to write letters to France. 25 Sep 1975 Guidelines for a letter to be written to people and organisations in France. 25 Sep 1975 (One side in English; one side in French) 1976: Auckland District Communist Party of New Zealand. New Zealand's future at stake [1976]. Flier (2 copies0 August 6 Mobilisation Committee Against Nuclear Warships. 21 Jun 1976 Campaign Against Nuclear Warships (CANWAR). Nuclear warships. Demonstrate 6 August, 8th August [1976]. Flier Campaign For Non-Nuclear Futures. Green flier about alternative sources of energy [ca 1976] Campaign For Non-Nuclear Futures. Campaign Half Million (Green flier 1976) Campaign Half Million. Nuclear power; why worry? [1976] Campaign Half Million. Wellington newsletter, 10 May 1976 (Pink flier) Campaign Half Million. [Six newsletter from Raewyn __ at 24 Kenneth Avenue, Mt Albert Auckland. 21 and 29 August, 4, 14 & 29 September, 27 October 1976] Campaign Half Million. Say no to nuclear power. Say yes to safe alternatives. Sign here [1976] (2 copies) C.A.R.E. French nuclear testing in the Pacific. White flier (2 copies) Citizen's March on Parliament. 6 July [1976]. Blue flier Eden Labour Party. Anti-nuclear petition. 30 Apr 1976. This petition will be presented to Parliament by Richard Prebble March for survival. Peace rally at Devonport Domain, 23 April 1976. White flier New Zealand's future at stake. (re visit of the 'Long Beach'). 4 Oct 1976 New Zealand's nuclear power decision, by Robert Mann. September 1976 NZ Socialist Unity Party. The 'Soviet menace'; these men say No. 4 Oct 1976 No nuclear warships in N.Z. ports. March Friday August 6th [1976] Peace Squadron. Nuclear weapons the ultimate pollution [1976] (2 copies) Wellington Peace Squadron. Join the Peace Squadron now [1976?] Women's Internation League for Peace & Freedom. White flier [1976] 1977: Campaign Against Nuclear Warships (CANWAR). Peace in the Pacific? (Mentions the visits of the Truxtun and the Longbeach in the previous year) [1977]. Green flier "Our nuclear defence" [Film]. New Zealand 1976 [ca 1977?] Stop uranium shipments through N.Z. ports. / Auckland University Students' Association [with cartoon by R Cobb, copyright 1975 to L.A. Free Press Syndicate]. Photocopy (2 copies) Stop uranium shipments through N.Z. ports. Picket and vigil of 'ACT 6', until ACT 6 leaves on July 5th. ACT 6 carries 200 tonnes of uranium oxide ore for processing in England [ca 1977] The Moehau celebration of New Zealand's coomunites and friends. Sandy Bay Coromandel, 25-27 February 1977. All proceeds to the Campaign for a Non-Nuclear Future. [Preview, 3 sheets] 1978: Campaign Against Nuclear Warships (CANWAR). Death ship in our harbour. "Pintado" [1978]. Flier Robert Aldridge on the Trident. Publication announcement / order form [1978] 1979: Say NO to nuclear warships (White flier) (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, relief prints, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 1960 - 1969

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to nuclear weapons, nuclear power, anti-nuclear protests]

Reference: Eph-B-NUCLEAR-1960s

Description: Includes material produced about the following subjects and by the following organisations: 1960: Wellington Movement for Nuclear Disarmament 1961: Some facts about nuclear weapons; petition letter to President Kennedy; Press release by Ambassador Adlai E Stevenson; Modern Films Ltd - progress reports on March to Aldermaston 1962: Federalist Action for the Revolutionary International Constituent Assembly (Declaration of Interdependence); Mt Roskill Citizens for Peace, Representative Committee to Protest Against Nuclear Tests 1963: Spies For Peace Affiliates NZ 1963-1964: Auckland University Students' Association; Mt Roskill Citizens for Peace; partially completed petition from NZ women to President De Gaulle; blank petition form for New Zealand Federation of Labour 1965: From the French Embassy: "Safety factors related to the French nuclear tests in the Pacific" 1967: Committee Against Atomic Testing; New Zealand Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament 1968: Tahiti report; between the bomb tests 1969: Universal Campaign to Outlaw War; New Zealand Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament; Also papers from "Unless Peace comes" seminar, University of Auckland, 19 April 1969 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, relief prints, sizes varying up to 330 mm. Provenance: Some material previously owned by Bert and Margot Roth.

Date: 1950 - 1959

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to nuclear weapons, nuclear power, anti-nuclear protests]

Reference: Eph-B-NUCLEAR-1950s

Description: Includes material produced about the following subjects and by the following organisations: 1953: "Must the Rosenburgs die? Eisenhower says Yes; the people say NO 1954: Convention on International Relations [Circular letters] 1958: The Hiroshima panels : Iri Maruki & Toshiko Akamatsu [?New Zealand Tour, 1958]. Movement Against Further Testing, Manufacture and Use of Nuclear Weapons [Fliers. ca 1958] A scientist looks at nuclear weapons / W.G. Whittlestone. 1958 An appeal to stop the spread of nuclear weapons [partly completed petition. 1958?] 1959: New Zealand Movement for Nuclear Disarmament. Bulletin 3, July 1959 Wellington Movement for Nuclear Disarmament Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, relief prints, sizes varying up to 330 mm. Provenance: Some material previously owned by Bert and Margot Roth.

Date: 1996

Reference: Eph-D-PEACE-1996-01

Description: Poster shows an illustration of stylised figures waving protest placards, against a red background with an exploding mushroom cloud. The placards say: Eradicate poverty; Save our ocean & forests for our children; Cut military spending; Stop the war in Bougaunville; Women's rights are human rights; Combat racism; Maohi independence now; Recognise indigenous people's rights Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 538 x 387 mm.

Date: 1983

From: [Posters of A2 and A1 size, relating to peace and anti-war issues. 1980-1989]

Reference: Eph-D-PEACE-1983-01

Description: Shows a white poppy on a stalk growing above ruined buildings, on a red background. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screen print on poster 595 x 420 mm.

Date: 1987

From: [Posters of A2 and A1 size, relating to peace and anti-war issues. 1980-1989]

Reference: Eph-D-PEACE-1987-03

Description: Shows an image forst used on a 1983 poster: a white poppy on a stalk growing above ruined buildings, on a red background. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screen print on poster 595 x 420 mm.

Date: 1958

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to nuclear weapons, nuclear power, anti-nuclear protests]

By: Movement for Nuclear Disarmament (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-NUCLEAR-1958-01

Description: Flier advertising a public meeting to discuss the effects of atomic weapons. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Relief print on flier, black on yellow, 215 x 140 mm.

Date: 1972

From: Lonsdale, Neil, 1907-1989 :Original cartoons [ca 1973]

Reference: B-127-088

Description: Shows Norman Kirk on board a Devonport ferry. He is wearing a black singlet and is holding a coal shovel. Near by is Mururoa Island with a great atomic cloud over the top. Cartoon which appeared in the `Homespun' column, written by Noel Holmes and published in the Auckland Star, 2 Dec 1972 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, 282 x 280 cm

Date: 1956

By: Russell, Vance Kevin, 1925-

Reference: C-076-264

Description: Shows cartoon of three panels. Two men stand beside a sign for Maralinga (an Aboriginal homeland), watching an atomic explosion, with mushroom cloud. One says to the other: "Congratulations old man. Got this one to go off. - Won't have to tell them that the weather was unfavourable this time". Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Vance K.; Verso - top right - Vance K Russell [and address] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, on sheet 665 x 285 mm.

Date: 1953 - 1954

By: Sanders, James Edward, 1911-1998; New Zealand observer (Newspaper)

Reference: H-633-001/033

Description: New Zealand topics include advocation of a state lottery, the rising cost of living, increased car licence fees, sales tax, mortgage rates, petrol prices, the 1953 visit by Queen Elizabeth 11 and Prince Philip, electioneering for the 1954 election, home brew in prisons, inflation, water supply disputes and shortages in Auckland, the future of the wine industry, geothermal power, traffic transgressions, advertising on parking meters, the Russian space programme and an observatory in Auckland and attitudes to public works in Auckland such as the harbour bridge and drainage. International topics include Australian lotteries, Winston Churchill keeping 'communist hands off' British Guiana, political troubles in Trieste and East Germany, relations between the Untied States and the USSR, radioactive pollution around Bikini Atoll, the TATTS talks and atomic bomb threats, the arrival of the yacht 'Hemskerk' in Sydney, the sale of Russian Embassy cars in Canberra and Soviet Russia's space programme. Quantity: 33 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 photocopies. Image sizes 178 x 228 mm approx.

Date: 1961

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-137-383

Description: Centre image is Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev shouting "And now 50 megatons!" Behind him a whole forest of mushroom clouds rise into the sky. In the background looms the shape of a large bomb and in the foreground a terrified family huddle. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and letraset on card, 280 x 380mm

Date: 1985

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :[Original cartoons drawn in 1985, mainly for the New Zealand Listener].

By: Greenpeace New Zealand

Reference: C-133-100

Description: Shows an illustration of a humpback whale surfacing from the deep sea, with a mushroom cloud looming in the clouded sky behind. Poster based on this drawing is held in the Ephemera Collection at Eph-D-GREENPEACE-1985-02. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, on sheet 640 x 324 mm. Provenance: Acquired from Mr Philip Oliver of Wellington in 2003.

Date: 1986 - 1992

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[Cartoons on topics of defence, politics, social issues, whimsy, medical issues, pollution, conservationists, trade unions, space exploration, animals, police & crime, Television, farming, sport, war, and transport. 1970-1990s].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-

Reference: B-144-054/085

Description: Includes: Arguments about where to place the "Rainbow Warrior" as a sunken wreck, NZ rugby players touring France are held for ransom for Dominique Prieur and Alain Mafart the French saboteurs, two men on an exploding piece of Earth have a very close view of Halley's Comet, public disbelief about impending environmental disasters, necessary repairs to "Rainbow Warrior" before it is sunk, Mafart and Prieur feel at home watching Mururoa tests from Hao, David Lange aids in Prieur and Mafart getting off lightly on Hao on Bastille Day, Soviet missile ship in the Pacific, Jacques Cousteau and the "Calypso" looking for a new test site in Wellington Harbour, the US Navy wanders the Pacific in search of one country to welcome them, the "Tripton factor - PM Jim Bolger trips on the hurdle of the Nuclear Issue, France China and Russia tell Mr Lange they are not testing, Greenpeace buys a new ship with French compensation money, Mafart cannot stop laughing, French claim that NZ meat and dairy products cause cancer, France and the US empty their chamberpots of nuclear waste into the Pacific, French leader asks Mafart to blow up the Beehive, Prieur and Mafart both have stomach aches from laughing, God promises to make the next Earth flat to prevent underground testing, French leader may want Prieur to work against Greenpeace in the Antarctic, fish swim around a rusting H-bomb, Niuklia Fri Pasifik is one big explosion of waves and mushroom cloud, as the Earth explodes we build ladders to the Moon and Mars and other planets, French pay NZ $3.4 million but is it our victory?, French hen tries to pacify Kiwi while bombs go off, US eagle and French hen are birds of a feather, can the baby New Year 1991 handle the warlike exploding world?, couple in armchairs on rocks from exploding Earth read how France contributes to Pacific stability, French President Chirac and French PM Madame Cresson detect growing apathy in NZ on their Outrage Meter, the spectre of the "Rainbow Warrior" rises from the grave, French cyclist wins a gold medal for Back-Pedalling. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed, but almost all undated, by artist. Arrangement: Arranged chronologically, according to the dates of "Dominion" clippings in Heath's albums (at E-521/547-q). Quantity: 32 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 1961

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-137-405

Description: Cartoon shows four vignettes: a smiling man with a suitcase and geiger counter; a man wanting a loan ("tick") gets booted out of the bank manager's office; a man comes to bombless New Zealand; politicians and unionists squabble violently about the Maraetai II close down and the Unionism Bill. Other Titles - New Zealand Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing 230 x 345 mm, on sheet 280 x 383 mm.

Date: 1984 - 1985

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[Cartoons on topics of defence, politics, social issues, whimsy, medical issues, pollution, conservationists, trade unions, space exploration, animals, police & crime, Television, farming, sport, war, and transport. 1970-1990s].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-

Reference: B-144-026/053

Description: Includes: US double standard in allowing China special rights with nuclear ship, where have all the protesters gone?, a "new clear issue - NO", 1200 nuclear explosion since 1945, French Polynesians believe things French are quite safe, Reagan and the Russian leader as old men in the Nuclear Suicide Club, French testing STILL going on in the year 3000 and still they haven't perfected it, two protesters making signs, David Lange as David fighting the Goliath of Nuclear Warships, door to door survey on people's attitude to nuclear testing, David Lange and a wreath for ANZUS, nuclear fallout - bad relations between Australian PM Hawke and NZ PM Lange, protester confused about what the aim of his protest should be, a French coffee mug explodes, a day off school because of Lange's nuclear protest, Boy George terrified of nuclear age, nuclear weapon testing as a violation of airspace, "Rainbow" coloured clothes modelled, Jacques Chirac smokes exploding cigar, French navy personnel frutrated at NZ canoeists, New Zealanders checking their speedboat in case of bombs planted on hull, war veteran won't support France in next war, French condemn Israel's intrusion on to foreign soil, the guillotine over Tahiti, Nelson orchardist imports French-made hail bomb, offer to return saboteurs Prieur and Mafart if nuclear testing called off, NZ government's enhanced techniques for detecting nuclear weapons on visiting ships. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed, but almost all undated, by artist. Arrangement: Arranged chronologically, according to the dates of "Dominion" clippings in Heath's albums (at E-521/547-q). Quantity: 28 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.