Where it began:-After World War Two
"No Bombs South of the Line" Auckland-Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, (CND)
Nuclear Testing began in the Pacific during the 1950's after the end of World War Two through the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These tests were carried out by namely United States of America, Russia, Britain and France. New Zealand and Australian military personnel also took part in these tests through the monitoring of the atmospheric tests with the use of our weather observation ships, for the British in the Indian Ocean. However in 1963 the British, American, and Soviet Governments created a partial ban on the testing; the Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT) in 1963, this banned the use of atmospheric tests. However in the same year the French established a nuclear test site in French Polynesia atolls and carried out around 190 nuclear tests between 1966 and 1996 at their atolls of Mururoa and Fangataufa. France, India, and China all refused to sign the treaty.