Anti-Nuclear Movement
About the Anti-Nuclear Movement
In the 1950's President Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace proposal to the united nations made efforts to support international corporation and sharing nuclear materials. It not only led to control over nuclear research but as well the development of nuclear weapons in other countries. The criticism from people about nuclear weaponry became loud and clear to the people, they expressed concerns about nuclear testing on the atmosphere, radioactive fallout, and effects of radiation to cause genetic mutation to living things.
In 1963 President John F. Kennedy's Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty had ended the testing of nuclear bombs in water, the atmosphere, and outer space; it was signed by the United States, Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom. As the Anti-Nuclear Movement continued in the United States during the late 1960's and the 1970's, it somewhat lost momentum as other social issues were starting to come about. such as the Vietnam War, Women's movement, and the Civil Rights Movement. |
The Anti-Nuclear Movement is a social movement that was against the production of nuclear weapons. Scientist had begun to realize that the use of atomic power can be fatal to the entire world. Many people had argued that nuclear wars and their effects such as radioactivity will be hard to dispose of and can cause serious issues both environmentally and socially.
During the late 1930's and early 1940's the atomic research was expensive and was usually funded by the government and the military. By the time the people realized the negative effects of the bomb, the government and military had started to control atomic energy. In 1945 the scientist in the Los Alamos Laboratory had detonated their first plutonium bomb in New Mexico, which caused the scientist to become concerned about the destructive effects of the atomic power. |