Nuclear weapons toolkit: learning resources

Mobilising for a nuclear-weapons-free Australia. A toolkit for raising awareness in 2021.

Content warning: much of the content included in this resource depicts images and descriptions of the use of weapons in wartime and may be disturbing or challenging for some.

Articles

1. Choosing Humanity: why Australia must join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons - the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
2. A historic day in the fight against nuclear weapons - Australian Red Cross' IHL team
3. No one will come to help: Why we must prevent a nuclear catastrophe - Australian Red Cross
4. 60 years after Sadako Sasaki's death, the story behind Hiroshima's paper cranes is still unfolding - The Japan Times
5. Use of nuclear and radiological weapons by terrorists? - the International Review of the Red Cross
6. The beginning of the end of nuclear weapons? - Australian Red Cross' IHL adviser Tara Gutman published in The Strategist
7. A delicate balance of humanity and military necessity - Australian Red Cross' International Humanitarian Law (IHL) team

Films

• On the Beach (1959). Watch it on Stan or iTunes.
• The Bomb (2015) - Public Broadcasting Service. Watch it on Amazon Prime.

• Building Bombs (1990). Available on DVD from Amazon.
• Coundown to Zero (2010). Watch it on YouTube.

• Half Life: A Parable for the Nuclear Age (1985). Watch it free on Australian Screen.
• If You Love This Planet (1982). Watch it free on YouTube.

• In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us? (1983). Watch it on Vimeo.

• Nuclear Tipping Point (2010). Watch it for free on Vimeo.

Short videos

• Australian Red Cross' webinar series commemorating the 75th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Nagasaki bomb survivor continues fight for nuclear-free world, 75 years on (via SBS On Demand)
• Nuclear weapons testing in Western Australia between 1953 and 1963 (via SBS On Demand)
• New Age of Nukes - Vice Media (via SBS On Demand)
• A Fair Deal for a Dark Race - First Australians (via SBS On Demand)
• A poem reading by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, an acclaimed poet and activist from the Marshall Islands

Podcasts

1. The most indiscriminate weapon of them all - Laws of War by Australian Red Cross
2. Nukes of Hazard - the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
3. Tracking Nuclear Weapons Program - the Center for Strategic and International Studies