Nuclear Disarmament Activism in Asia and the Pacific

Wittner, Lawrence S. "Nuclear Disarmament Activism in Asia and the Pacific": 11. doi:10.1017/s1557466009008286.

Abstract: The article is titled Nuclear Disarmament Activism in Asia and the Pacific, 1971-1996 and is authored by Lawrence S. Wittner. Its outline includes sections such as Ronald Reagan, Keep America Strong, The Rainbow Warrior sinks, and George W. Bush, and it provides a recommended citation. The section from which several passages are drawn is labeled The Rainbow Warrior sinks. The article reports that in the late 1980s and early 1990s, nuclear disarmament activism remained significant. Filipino nationalist organizations, including the press, a lawyers’ group, and a peasant group, invoked the nuclear-free provision of the Philippines’ new constitution to press for closure of the U.S. bases at Subic and Clark Field. In May 1992, approximately 10,000 people demonstrated in Kashgar in the largest Uighur protest to date against Chinese nuclear testing. In Palau, voters rejected another U.S. attempt to override the island nation’s nuclear-free constitution. The article states that antinuclear activism across the region weighed on U.S. officials and contributed to actions by the administration of President George H.W. Bush. On September 27, 1991, Bush announced the destruction of all U.S. ground-based tactical nuclear weapons, the removal of all seaborne tactical nuclear weapons from U.S. warships, the removal of all U.S. strategic bombers and some land-based strategic missiles from alert status, and the cancellation of plans for mobile ICBMs and short-range attack missiles. The article describes a wave of protest in the mid-1990s as nuclear powers delayed a comprehensive test ban treaty. In June 1995, French President Jacques Chirac announced that France would resume nuclear testing in the Pacific in September, triggering widespread protest. In 1996, Greenpeace made the test ban its top priority, organizing demonstrations, confrontations, and a protest voyage to China. In July 1996, the Chinese government announced it was joining the worldwide testing halt.

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