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Back from the Brink: The Creation of a Nuclear Free New Zealand

Author: Kevin P. Clements

Harper Collins, Wellington NZ and New York, 1988, pp. 241

Account of significant popular movement in 1970s and 1980s (including local councils declaring themselves nuclear-free) that led to government action to turn New Zealand into a nuclear-free zone and to refuse to allow US warships carrying nuclear weapons to dock in its ports (although it did not remove US monitoring bases).