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Title

Mururoa protest : the story of the voyages by HMNZ ships Otago and Canterbury to protest against the French atmospheric nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll in 1973 / [Gerry Wright].

Author

Wright, G. C. (Gerald Curtis), 1938-

Publication

[Auckland, N.Z. : G. Wright, 2008]

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Description

xiv, 248 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 21 cm.

Summary

Mururoa Protest tells the story of the Norman Kirk-led Labour government's protest against French nuclear weapon testing in the atmosphere over Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia in 1973. In this protest action the government took the case to the International Court of Justice and sent two naval frigates to protest off Mururoa Atoll. This is the naval story of that deployment.

Subject

• Antinuclear movement > New Zealand > History
• Canterbury (Frigate)
• New Zealand > Politics and government > 1972-
• New Zealand. Royal New Zealand Navy > History
• Nuclear weapons > Mururoa Atoll > Testing
• Otago (Frigate)

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / David Barber -- Introduction -- 1. Background -- 2. Protest preparations -- 3. Vanguard involvement -- 4. Otago prepares -- 5. Australian support -- 6. Passage to Mururoa -- 7. Exclusuion Zone entry -- 8. The second entry -- 9. The third Otago entry -- 10. Otago closes in -- 11. Canterbury joins the protest -- 12. Canterbury falters -- 13. Otago's fourth entry -- 14. Canterbury's turn -- 15. Postscript.

ISBN

• 9780473131784 (pbk.)
• 0473131781 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008426775

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library