On 11 August 1983 these marchers in Wellington demonstrated against the visit of USS Texas to 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 (PAColl-7327)
Reference:
EP/1983/3124/21A
Photograph by Stuart Ramson
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