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The anti-nuclear movement in Canada began as a part of the overall peace movement within Canada. The impetus for the anti-nuclear movement can be ascribed to the threat of nuclear arms during the Cold War, and the ineffectiveness of the United Nations in resolving the political tensions. [3]
Sporadic anti-nuclear protests had since occurred around 1960, but NWFZs provided anti-nuclear groups with a tangible policy goal to promote. [51] Although the decision of Prime Minister Pearson’s liberal government to accept nuclear weapons into the Canadian Forces was a setback for the peace movement, anti-nuclear activism continued. [52]
During the 1980s struggles for nuclear disarmament, the Congress helped found the much broader Canadian Peace Alliance in 1985 as a more inclusive and less centralized network of peace organizations, including many newly formed groups (as opposed to the CPCon which was seen as aligned with the anti-imperialist current within the broad peace ...
A Staple State: Canadian Industrial Resources in Cold War. U. of Toronto Press. 260 pp. Clearwater, John. 1998. Canadian nuclear weapons: the untold story of Canada's Cold War arsenal. Dundurn Press. ISBN 1-55002-299-7; Cuff, R. D. and J. L. Granatstein. 1975. Canadian-American Relations in Wartime: From the Great War to the Cold War.
Many other anti-nuclear groups formed elsewhere, in support of these local struggles, and some existing citizen action groups widened their aims to include the nuclear issue. [12] Anti-nuclear success at Wyhl also inspired nuclear opposition in the rest of Europe and North America. [13] In 1972, the anti-nuclear weapons movement maintained a ...
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (French: Voix des femmes canadiennes pour la paix), also known as the Voice of Women or VOW, is a Canadian anti-nuclear pacifist organization that was formed in 1960. [1]
He is known as a leading anti-nuclear activist in Canada. Edwards gained public profile after he debated Edward Teller, the famous physicist and ‘father of the hydrogen bomb’, on live Canadian national television on October 17, 1974, [3] [4] becoming known as a leading anti-nuclear activist. [5]
Scientists issued statements demanding an end to the nuclear tests. In Fiji, anti-nuclear activists formed an Against Testing on Mururoa organization. [131] In the Basque Country (Spain and France), a strong anti-nuclear movement emerged in 1973, which ultimately led to the abandonment of most of the planned nuclear power projects. [132]