For many decades, historians, researchers, and participants have documented the history of the nuclear era in the Pacific Islands. Join us for a discussion about how affected communities are campaigning to address the health and environmental consequences of fifty years of Cold War nuclear testing, at ten sites across Oceania. As Australia plans to buy AUKUS nuclear submarines, and Japan dumps treated wastewater into the Pacific from the stricken Fukushima nuclear reactor, Pacific island nations and communities are mobilising to halt nuclear build-up in the region.
Nic Maclellan is a correspondent for Islands Business magazine (Fiji) and other regional media. From the 1970s, Nic was active in the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific movement and between 1997-2001, he worked as a staff member at the Pacific Concerns Resource Centre (PCRC), the NFIP secretariat in Suva, Fiji. As a journalist today, he reports on issues of decolonisation and demilitarisation around the Pacific. His book “Grappling with the Bomb” – a history of British nuclear testing in Kiribati – was shortlisted for the EPAA “Scholarly Book of the Year” in 2019.
