item details
NamePoster, 'To the French Government'
ProductionCampaign for Nuclear Disarmament (N.Z.); publisher; 1980s; New Zealand
Classificationpolitical posters
Materialspaper, ink
DimensionsOverall: 273mm (width), 435mm (height)
Registration NumberGH024569
Credit lineGift of the Estate of Ron and Carmen Smith, 2015
Overview
This poster by the Wellington branch of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament protests against French power and nuclear testing in the Pacific.
Between 1966 and 1996, France carried out about 190 nuclear tests at Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls in French Polynesia. These caused reef damage, landslides, subsidence, radioactive emissions, and fish poisoning.
The poster features the logo for the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Movement. The movement was formed in 1980 to widen the struggle against nuclear testing in the Pacific to independence from colonial powers.