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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
Further information and copies of this image may be obtained from the Library through its 'Timeframes' website, http://timeframes.natlib.govt.nz
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any reuse of this image.

How to cite this page: 'USS Buchanan anti-nuclear cartoon ', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/uss-buchanan-cartoon, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 28-Jan-2008

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