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Kōrero: United States and New Zealand

Protest against the USS Texas

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Protest against the USS <em>Texas</em>

On 11 August 1983 these marchers in Wellington demonstrated against the visit of USS Texasto the city's port. The protesters carried a model of the Statue of Liberty wielding an atomic weapon. The growing anti-nuclear movement in New Zealand was hostile to visits from US ships because the Americans refused to confirm or deny that their ships carried nuclear weapons.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1983/3124/21A

by Stuart Ramson

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Robert Ayson rāua ko Jock Phillips, United States and New Zealand – Nuclear-free 1980s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/32900/protest-against-the-uss-texas (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Robert Ayson rāua ko Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 14 March 2012.