Movement for Nuclear Disarmament (Wellington, N.Z.)
The Wellington Movement for Nuclear Disarmament was one of five organisations formed in New Zealand during 1959 to protest against nuclear testing. These organisations - Wellington Movement for Nuclear Disarmament; The Society for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Dunedin; Campaign Against Nuclear Warfare, Christchurch; Movement for Nuclear Disarmament, Hawkes Bay; and The Movement Against Further Testing, Manufacture and Use of Nuclear Weapons, Auckland. These organisations affiliated and became The NZ Council for Nuclear Disarmament.
In 1960 it was renamed The NZ Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament with headquarters in Christchurch.
Image
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.
Image
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.
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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.
Manuscript
Date:
1952-1962
From:
Curnow, Thomas Allen Monro, 1911-2001 : Papers
Reference:
MS-Papers-2402-05
Description:
Inward letters to Curnow, many relating to publishing, literary periodicals in America, friends in New Zealand, mainly concerned with printing orders; identified correspondents entered under Name below. Also includes letters from Jeannie, Lakeland, Florida, enclosing photograph; Aunt Fanny, Sydney; John, Durham City; [?] John Turner, New York; Helen, Christchurch; Tony, SEATO, Bangkok; and letter to Bob, possibly Lowry. Several copies of programme, `Moon section' by Curnow, directed by Ronald Barker (CAS theatre, Auckland).
Other Titles - Moon section, a play by Allen Curnow
Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Image
Date:
1950 - 1959
From:
[Ephemera of octavo size relating to nuclear weapons, nuclear power, anti-nuclear protests]
Reference:
Eph-A-NUCLEAR-1950s-1
Description:
Includes leaflets and pamphlets issued by the following organisations:
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Convention on International Relations
Movement Against Further Testing, Manufacture and Use of Nuclear Weapons
Society of Friends
University of Auckland Council of Adult Education
Wellington Movement for Nuclear Disarmament
Includes flyers announcing talks by Professor Linus Pauling: "Nuclear weapons" - Dominion Museum Wellington, 28 November 1959; "Our choice - nuclear death or world law" - Auckland Town Hall, 2 December 1959
Also includes Society of Friends flyer announcing a lecture tour by Dr Kathleen Lonsdale, 22-29 September 1954
Titles of some flyers and pamphlets include:
Tomorrow's children? (2 copies)
N.Z. can act to prevent this
Protest against H-Bomb
Nuclear power
Radiation and the human race
Atomic weapons, "the great deterrent?"
Atomic weapons, "poisoned atmosphere?"
Atomic weapons, "right or wrong?"
Nuclear bombs are your concern
The Fifth World Conference Against A & H Bombs, Hiroshima, August 1-7, 1959 (with pledge by Dr Linus Pauling, Prof Dr Shoichi Sakata, Prof Dr Nikolai N Kovalev, Dr Pierre Vigier)
Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying.
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