“New Zealand’s nuclear free movement is a broad-based and popular movement. Our nuclear free status is a challenge to much that is accepted as orthodox in international relations. It was formally adopted in the cold war era as a form of resistance to the dismal doctrines of nuclear deterrence. It is still a rebuke to the unprincipled exercise of economic power and military might.” StillsWarMightFormChallengesEconomicMilitaryMovementColdExerciseRelationInternationalNuclearAcceptedResistanceDoctrineErasOrthodoxBroadsCold WarAdoptedInternational RelationsNew ZealandRebukeEconomic PowerDeterrenceFree MovementNuclear Deterrence Author:David Lange
“Our nuclear free status means that we decline to acquiesce in the strategies of nuclear deterrence. We will not turn a blind eye to them, and pretend that the weapons are no longer a threat. We will not in any way tolerate the testing of nuclear weapons, or their manufacture, or their deployment.” WayMeanEyeTurnsWeaponsBlindStrategyThreatNuclearDeclineNuclear WeaponsTolerateTestingDeploymentBlind EyesDeterrenceNuclear Deterrence Author:David Lange
