Opposing Nuclear Weapons Testing in the Global South: A Comparative Perspective

IF 1.6 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Exequiel Lacovsky
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Abstract

During the Cold War, nuclear weapon states outsourced their nuclear testing programmes to their hinterlands or overseas territories. Countries such as the United States (US), the United Kingdom (UK), France and the Soviet Union conducted more than 750 nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands, Australia, the Algerian Sahara, French Polynesia and Kazakhstan, respectively. In these cases, nuclear activities did not go unchallenged as they affected people’s health and the environment. To different extents, nuclear testing met with opposition from local, regional and international actors. A comparative perspective on anti-nuclear movements – in different regions and time frameworks – that struggled against nuclear colonialism in the form of nuclear testing highlights the impact left by anti-nuclear movements in the Global South, which is relevant to discussions on how the non-proliferation regime is structured today.
反对发展中国家的核武器试验:比较视角
冷战期间,核武器国家将核试验项目外包给内陆地区或海外领土。美国、联合王国、法国和苏联等国分别在马绍尔群岛、澳大利亚、阿尔及利亚撒哈拉、法属波利尼西亚和哈萨克斯坦进行了750多次核试验。在这些情况下,核活动并非没有受到挑战,因为它们影响到人民的健康和环境。核试验在不同程度上遭到了地方、区域和国际行动者的反对。对在不同地区和时间框架内与核试验形式的核殖民主义作斗争的反核运动的比较观点突出了全球南方反核运动留下的影响,这与今天如何构建不扩散制度的讨论有关。
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International Spectator
International Spectator INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS-
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