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USS Buchanan anti-nuclear cartoon

USS Buchanan anti-nuclear cartoon

'Can't understand all this fuss they're making over radiation!' On 4 February 1985 the New Zealand Labour government refused the USS Buchanan entry on the grounds that the United States would neither confirm nor deny that the ship had nuclear capability.

Alexander Turnbull Library
Cartoonist: Eric Heath
Reference: H-302-00x
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