4 Summary of Session 3

In this session, you have explored some of the ways in which anti-nuclear activism cuts across national borders. During the Euromissile Crisis of the early 1980s, Western activists sought interlocutors on the other side of the Iron Curtain to work towards the abolition of nuclear weapons in Europe. You then learned about the important global role of the hibakusha in raising awareness of the dangers of nuclear weapons and how Hiroshima has become an important global crossroads for victims of nuclear technologies. Finally, looking at the case of South Africa, you examined how anti-nuclear activists unable to protest within the country mounted a World Campaign to end the ‘apartheid bomb’, and how South Africa ultimately dismantled its nuclear weapons unilaterally and became an important champion for nuclear disarmament on the world stage.

In the next session, you will explore some of the different ways in which governments have responded to, and engaged with, anti-nuclear activism.

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