Nuclear weapons - China - Testing

Date: 1980

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :[One folder of original cartoons concerning world politics. Published in the Auckland Star, 1980].

Reference: A-331-084

Description: The cartoon shows a man wearing a hat that reads, mon repose. A dart, reading Chinese Rocket, has landed on his nose and stuck there. Refers to a Chinese unarmed missile test that landed in the South Pacific. Also refers to French testing in the South Pacific. Negatives at PA Collection 5371 Bromhead Collection Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 275 x 200mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: 1964

By: Scales, Sydney Ernest, 1916-2003

Reference: A-352-030

Description: Shows a Chinese brush-painter, possibly Mao Tse Tung, drawing a mushroom cloud above a hammer and sickle. Other Titles - Otago Daily Times Other Titles - China explodes a nuclear bomb 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: 1993

From: Clark, Laurence [Klarc], 1949- :New Zealand Herald cartoons 1993

Reference: H-015-005

Description: Shows a message put together with letters cut from magazines or newspapers. Refers to China's failure to win the bid to host the Olympic Games in 2000 and to her refusal to ban nuclear tests Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromide photograph

Date: 1973

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

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-134-482

Description: This cartoon features a Chinese nuclear test. A man is pointing out the explosion to an FOL protester who is holding a banner against French nuclear tests in the Pacific. He is standing beside mail and goods from France that have been blacked by the FOL. The FOL protester is saying to the other man that they don't yet know if Communist nuclear fall-out is harmful. Label on verso dated Mon 2/7 Other Titles - French fallout endangers Pacific peoples Extended Title - The Acting President of the F.O.L. will await world trade union opinion on Chinese nuclear tests before it decides what action to take. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 296 x 398 mm

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.