Using the feature Nuclear-free New Zealand and your own knowledge, answer the following questions.
- When did New Zealand sign the ANZUS agreement?
- What is meant by the term 'nuclear umbrella'?
- How did France react to the International Court of Justice's ruling on its nuclear testing in 1973?
- What action did the Kirk government take in support of the International Court of Justice's ruling on French testing?
- In your opinion, why were members of the public becoming concerned about the visit of nuclear-armed or nuclear-powered ships to New Zealand?
- Why did the Muldoon government support the visit of such ships to New Zealand?
- What did Robert Muldoon do that David Lange described as 'a calculated attempt to embarrass the new Labour government'?
- Why did the Lange government refuse permission for the USS Buchanan to visit New Zealand?
- How did the Broomfield Act change New Zealand's official relationship with the United States ?
- What proposition did David Lange argue at the Oxford Union debate in 1985?
- Who was responsible for sinking the Rainbow Warrior at Marsden Wharf in July 1985?
- Why was the Rainbow Warrior attacked?
- Why did the United Nations become involved in the Rainbow Warrior affair?
- What eventually happened to those convicted of the Rainbow Warrior bombing?
- How did New Zealand's traditional allies, Britain and the United States, react to the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior?