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Article: The nuclear issue in the South Pacific: labor parties, trade union movements, and Pacific island churches in international relations.(Dialogue 1: Reflections on Nuclear Testing in the South Pacific)
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- The Contemporary Pacific
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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Since the end of World War II, various negotiations, with or without the immediate agreement of the two "superpowers" of the time, the United States and the Soviet Union, have been undertaken in order to prevent a military nuclear presence or even the use of civil nuclear power in some parts of the world (the nuclear-weapon-free zones)--or indeed in space. Following treaties relating to the Antarctic (1959) and Latin America (Tlatelolco Treaty, 1967), the Treaty of Rarotonga (Cook Islands), signed on 6 August 1985, seeks to make the South Pacific nuclear free. More recent treaties concern Southeast Asia and Africa (Szurek 1997). In addition, some cities, such as Faa'a, on ...