Student Resources

 

Learn Abolition: ICAN 2008 educational booklet

This educational booklet on nuclear weapons and solutions is being developed for use in schools, and contains a range of educational activities.

Reprocessing Australia's high level nuclear waste. Stephen Campbell - 2000

The Australian government, while being well aware that the political fix called reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel will disappear, has a speculative strategy for dealing with this deadly waste as the window of opportunity for the European option is closing. Paper by Stephen Campbell, Greenpeace Australia Pacific, 2000.

The management of radioactive wastes and the disposal of plutonium. Dr Frank Barnaby - 2000

Dr Frank Barnaby outlines the categories of radioactive wastes, the need for a policy on disposal and management of plutonium and its inherent nuclear weapons proliferation aspects. Paper presented at the 2000 MAPW National Conference.

Nuclear power no solution to climate change. FoE, MAPW et al: 2005

This report prepared by Friends of the Earth (FoEi)  and supported by MAPW and other groups critiques the argument that nuclear power is a solution to climate change, and documents its hazards for security, the env

Cluster bombs: the case of Lebanon. MAPW: Drs Mukhtar and Wareham - 2007

This 2007 MAPW report was written by MAPW doctors Hadia Mukhtar and Sue Wareham, with Phillip Salem from Australians for Lebanon. It documents the terrible legacy of cluster bombs in southern Lebanon as a result of the 2006 war, and makes recommendations for Australian action both to assist the survivors, and to prevent the use of these weapons in the future.

Health care not warfare. MAPW: Dr Sue Wareham - 2004

This 2004 report by MAPW President Dr Sue Wareham argues that the health and welfare of Australians have been sacrificed by policies that confuse security with military power, and divert funding from health care to killing. It compares in detail the Australian budget for military and other needs.

Understanding the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (print quality). MAPW - 2007

This 24-page booklet updated by Dimity Hawkins for MAPW sets out the important role of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPTi) and how it can be successfully impleme

Understanding the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (online reading only). MAPW - 2007

This 24-page booklet updated by Dimity Hawkins for MAPW sets out the important role of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPTi) and how it can be successfully impleme

Securing our survival: (summary). MAPW and ICAN - 2007

This is a 4-page overview of Securing our survival: the case for a nuclear weapons convention (2007), which  sets out and explains an updated Model Convention aiming eliminate nuclear weapons.

Yellowcake Country? Australia's uranium industry. 2006

Yellowcake Country? is a detailed report on Australia's uranium industry prepared by the Beyond Nuclear Initiative in 2006. It raises environmental and health risks, and the threat of nuclear war.