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Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
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This free course was written by Luc-André Brunet and Eirini Karamouzi.

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Introduction and guidance

Images

Course image: Homer Sykes / Alamy Stock Photo

ICAN logo: https://www.icanw.org/

Session 1

Images

Figure 1: INTERFOTO / Alamy Stock Photo

Figure 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_nuclear_tests_at_Maralinga#/media/File:Buffalo_R4_001.jpg

Figure 3: https://warpp.info/en/m6/infographics/nuclear-weapons-explosions-1945-to-2018/https://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.en

Audio/Video

Activity 1 audio: talking about Hiroshima 6.8.1945. The recording is from December 2023 during a conference co-organised by the The Open University, University of Sheffield and the Hiroshima Peace Institute at Hiroshima City University (Japan) with the latter hosting the event.

Activity 2 video: courtesy ICAN https://www.icanw.org/

Session 2

Images

Figure 1: courtesy CNDUK https://cnduk.org/peoples-history-of-cnd-aldermaston-and-the-early-radicalism/

Figure 2: Photographer : Bogaerts, Rob / Anefo Copyright holder: National Archives Material : https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en

Figure 3: DVD cover of BBC film Threads (1984) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_%281984_film%29

Figure 4: http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/Newsbriefs/9509/9-13/

Figure 5: Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (N.Z.); publisher; 1980s; New Zealand

Audio/Video

Activity 1 video: What forms of peace activism took place in the UK courtesy London School of Economics https://www.lse.ac.uk/

Session 3

Images

Figure 1: Homer Sykes / Alamy Stock Photo

Figure 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/comments/1agogcs/antinuclear_demonstration_in_bonn_germany_we_dont/

Figure 3: Photo: courtesy Mike Kantey

Figure 4: Poster advertising an event co-organised by the Anti Apartheid Movement CND in Exeter, England June 1982

Audio/Video

Activity 1 video: Was UK peace activism part of a worldwide movement? Courtesy: LSE https://www.lse.ac.uk/

Activity 2 video: from The Future ReImagined, session 2, 22 September 2023, featuring Ambassador Abdul Minty at University of Johannesburg

Session 4

Images

Figure 1: poster by Youth Multilateral Disarmament https://www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/Assets/Documents/project-docs/cnd-archives/004-0001.pdf

Figure 2: Andreas Papandreou Foundation (APF), box 4, The Four Continent Peace Initiative, 22 May 1984

Audio/Video

Activity 1 video: How did the UK Government respond to peace activism? Courtesy: London School of Economics and Political Science https://www.lse.ac.uk/

Activity 2 video: BEYOND WAR AWARD - 1985 - Five Continent Peace Initiative by Beyond War Foundation (clip 40.00-42.50) https://archive.org/details/BeyondWarAward-1985 - https://creativecommons.org/public-domain/cc0/

Session 5

Images

Figure 1: Courtesy The Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation Ltd, Ken Coates, European Nuclear Disarmament. https://www.russfound.org/END/EuropeanNuclearDisarmament.html

Figure 2: USA Government - Public Domain

Figure 3: AMR NABIL / Stringer / via Getty Images

Audio/Video

Activity 1 video: How successful was the UK peace movement? Courtesy: LSE https://www.lse.ac.uk/

Session 6

Images

Figure 1: President Lyndon B. Johnson looks on as Secretary of State Dean Rusk signs the NPT, July 1, 1968, Washington. Photo: National Archives LB306-PSD-68-2055 https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/NPT-in-Pictures.pdf

Figure 2: Table showing countries with nuclear weapons in Which countries have nuclear weapons? https://www.icanw.org/

Tables

Table 1: The key differences between the NPT and the TPNW in ICAN (2013) (p. 3) How the TPNW Complements, Reinforces, and Builds On the NPT.

Audio/Video

Activity 1 video: Beatrice Fihn. Courtesy: ICAN https://www.icanw.org/

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