1893-1976
Eastern Europe
(372) documents
East Asia
North America
South Asia
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1875- 1965
1923-
January 21, 1991
The Presidentâs special envoy to Jordan, Richard Armitage, updates the White House on a private talk he had just had with King Hussein. The King briefed Armitage on a secret meeting recently held with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir.
March 2, 1990
A letter from Olzhas Suleimenov welcoming participants to the upcoming International Citizens Congress for a Nuclear Test Ban. Suleimenov describes the recent successes of the Nevada-Semipalatinsk Movement and explains that forming a united voice with the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War will lead to future victories.
1989
A pamphlet about the Semipalatinsk Test Site, describing its history of nuclear testing from 1949 to 1989. Detailed information about the radioactive fallout from the tests is provided. The guide also gives information about the physical ailments nuclear tests rendered on local populations and includes rates of cancer, mental diseases, and infant mortality in the region.
1991
The documents in this collection surround two separate topics. One topic involves the status of Almaz Estekov, a political refugee in the United States who was active in the antinuclear and environmental movements of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The second topic involves children suffering from the effects of nuclear testing in Kazakhstan. The names of these children, the ailments they are suffering, and a proposal to establish a laboratory to help monitor environmental pollution in Kazakhstan are included.
December 1989
An interview between Moscow News journalist Yuri Dmitriyev and the founder of the Nevada-Semipalatinsk movement Olzhas Suleimenov. Suleimenov explains the origins and aims of the Nevada-Semipalatinsk movement. He also discusses how official authorities relate to the movement.
May 1990
A page of logos used during the International Citizens Congress for a Nuclear Test Ban.
A timeline describing the conception and subsequent activities of the Nevada-Semipalatinsk Nuclear Movement. Special attention is given to Kazakh-U.S. cooperation, acts of protest, and nuclear tests carried out by the USSR. The timeline ends with the International Citizens Congress for a Nuclear Test Ban in May 1990.
This shortened program for the International Citizens Congress for a Nuclear Test Ban broadly describes the daily activities of congress participants. According to the program, the congress will include a variety of receptions, working committees, dinners, press-conferences, and speakers.
This pamphlet, written in both English and Russian, describes the Nevada-Semipalatinsk Movement's proposed ethnic and cultural initiative "Peace Migration into the XXIst Century." With the objective to close all nuclear test sites and obtain a moratorium on nuclear tests, the initiative will peacefully migrate from Semipalatinsk, USSR to Nevada, USA, stopping along the way at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Included is a map of the proposed journey.
The logo used during the International Citizens Congress for a Nuclear Test Ban.