Downloads related to "Nuclear tests"
Who will stop nuclear next use? Flyer for forum 2009
20 September 2009 forum: Australia-Japan civil society cooperation for nuclear disarmament. Nautilus Institute, RMIT: supported by MAPW, ICANi, Japanese for Peace and the Australian Government. Please refer to the events page for further details.
MAPW submission on proposed expansion of Olympic Dam mine: 7 August 2009
MAPW reply on the purposed expansion of the Olympic Dam mine.
MAPW Newsletter Winter 2009
MAPW's National Newsletter for Winter 2009 features an article from Dr Bill Williams about the movement on nuclear abolition. Furthermore, there's an update about the situation in Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, as well as a Townsville report and other peace activities listed.
MAPW National Newsletter Autumn 2009
MAPW's National Newsletter for Autumn 2009 features Tilman Ruff's visit to the particularly unsafe uranium mine at Jadugoda in India; the Gaza conflict and concerns on use of phosphorus, and new and dangerous weapons. As well there are reports on ICANi, our campaign to abolish nuclear weapons; and on nuclear veterans' attempts to gain fair compensation in French Poynesia.
France and compensation for nuclear testing: December 2008
French nuclear veterans have strongly criticised a proposed law covering compensation for survivors of French nuclear testing in Algeria and French Polynesia. The law would cover former nuclear workers and military personnel whose health was affected by French nuclear tests. But the victims' supporters argue that almost none would be eligible for compensation. This 4-page article was prepared by Nic Maclellan, December 2008.
MAPW 2008: Nuclear weapons, nature and society
In this report, MAPW President Dr Sue Wareham, argues that nuclear weapons represent mankind’s ultimate confrontation with the natural environment that sustains us. Areas covered include nuclear accidents, nuclear waste and the effects of nuclear tests. Prepared for the Biosensitive Futures website of the Nature and Society Forum, November 2008.
NZ nuclear veterans' long term chromosome damage: Rowland 2008
"Elevated chromosome translocation frequencies in New Zealand nuclear test veterans", by Associate Professor Al Rowland and other Massey University researchers, is a significant study documenting health effects for NZ sailors who witnessed Britain's Grapple nuclear tests at Christmas Island in the 1950s. The study details evidence of long term genetic damage, of a type linked to the presence of a wide range of illnesses and with the potential to result in intergenerational effects Published in the leading international peer-reviewed scientific journal "International Cytogenetics and Genome Research".
The grim reality: the global nuclear situation. Dr Frank Barnaby - 1998
At the IPPNWi XIIIth World Congress, 1998, Dr Frank Barnaby outlined global nuclear arsenals - that the only way to remove the risk of nuclear war is to abolish nuclear weapons. The paper is titled "The grim reality: the current nuclear situation."
JPPNW message at Nagasaki Day rally - 2002
An appeal from Hiroshima by Kenjiro Yokoro, MD, of the Japanese Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Speech presented in Australia by Dr Tilman Ruff on behalf of JPPNW on August 1, 2002.
