Nuclear weapons - Russia - Testing

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Scales, Sid :"The avenue of peaceful no-existence?". Otago Daily Times.

From: Scales, Sid :Two laser copies of original cartoons donated for the New Zealand Cartoon Archive auction, 6 November 1997.

Reference: H-467-002

Description: The cartoon shows President Kruschev walking happily down an `avenue' of nuclear explosions, each of the explosions being larger than the one previous. Refers to nuclear weapons testing. Inscriptions: Verso - top left - Signed by the cartoonist. Quantity: 1 laser copy. Physical Description: Laser copy, A4 size.

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Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923- :Testing? No, Monsieur Lange, just celebrating your antinuc...

Date: 1987

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].

Reference: B-144-065

Description: Shows David Lange the Prime Minister of New Zealand, at right foreground, in a T-shirt labelled "Nuke Buster", looking over his back fence at the leaders of China, France and Russia, who cheerfully tell him the reason for the mushroom clouds in the background. The leaders resemble President De Gaulle, Mao Tse-Tung and Leonid Brezhnev. Dated by date of appearance in the "Dominion". Inscriptions: Recto - Signed Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, image 247 x 325 mm, on paper 323 x 487 mm.

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Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :World Environment Day. The choice of the week! South Pacifi...

Date: 1975

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[27 boxes of cartoons drawn for the "Dominion", 1970-1980s?].

Reference: C-132-129

Description: Shows New Zealand as a man wearing a gas-mask and protective clothing, opening a door onto the South Pacific and Australia. The region is cluttered with the rubbish dumped there by other nations, including Russia, France and the U. S. A. Russia's contribution includes firing a huge missile into the Pacific and France's is the beginning of nuclear tests, while the United States wants to dump nuclear waste in the Antarctic. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 507 x 634 mm Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.