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Within the Middle East,
people are concerned about the race to acquire nuclear technology. Around the world, the struggle has been
going for decades. Now is the time for
the two to meet, the whole world would share in the benefits of a Nuclear Free
Middle East and the dangers of it failing.
Greenpeace has worked for
peace and against nuclear technology for more than 35 years. It began with the organization’s maiden
voyage on a old trawler called the “"Phyllis Cormack" which set sail
from Canada for the US nuclear testing zone near Amchitka, Alaska, to stop a
planned nuclear test. After a month at sea, the maiden voyage of Greenpeace delayed
the planned US test, which eventually went
ahead, but the massive negative
publicity surrounding the test eventually forced cancellation of plans for
future tests on the island.
Since then, Greenpeace has tirelessly campaigned against both nuclear weapons and nuclear power. It bears witness at test zones and tells the world; it supplies scientific data and measurements about the technology’s human and environmental impacts; and it conducts non-violent peaceful protest to call attention to the nuclear threat and highlight the alternatives to it.
In 1985, Greenpeace responded to a call for help from the North Pacific and helped evacuate the people of Rongelap. The US’s infamous Bravo test on Bikini Atoll in 1954 had contaminated the people of Rongelap’s home with radioactivity.
A few months later, the French Secret Service attached
two mines to the hull of Greenpeace’s flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, while
berthed in Auckland Harbour in New Zealand.
They were detonated, sinking the ship and killing Greenpeace
photographer Fernando Pereira. The Rainbow Warrior was in Auckland preparing to
travel to Mururoa to oppose French nuclear tests.
Since then, Greenpeace has tracked plutonium and nuclear waste shipments around the globe, highlighted the dangers of reprocessing nuclear material, protested nuclear-powered and nuclear-armed vessels, and confronted the nuclear weapon states about their weapons programmes.
And all the while, practical energy alternatives grew along with public support for sustainability and disarmament.; That voice is getting louder. It is now time to bring the nuclear-free call into the Middle East.
History background
Crew of the Phyllis Cormack, first Greenpeace trip to Amchitka Island to protest nuclear weapons testing.
Since then, Greenpeace has tirelessly campaigned against both nuclear weapons and nuclear power. It bears witness at test zones and tells the world; it supplies scientific data and measurements about the technology’s human and environmental impacts; and it conducts non-violent peaceful protest to call attention to the nuclear threat and highlight the alternatives to it.
In 1985, Greenpeace responded to a call for help from the North Pacific and helped evacuate the people of Rongelap. The US’s infamous Bravo test on Bikini Atoll in 1954 had contaminated the people of Rongelap’s home with radioactivity.
Two magnetic limpett mines sunk the ship: one on the hull and one on the propellor shaft.
Since then, Greenpeace has tracked plutonium and nuclear waste shipments around the globe, highlighted the dangers of reprocessing nuclear material, protested nuclear-powered and nuclear-armed vessels, and confronted the nuclear weapon states about their weapons programmes.
And all the while, practical energy alternatives grew along with public support for sustainability and disarmament.; That voice is getting louder. It is now time to bring the nuclear-free call into the Middle East.
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