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The Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty is a collective security agreement between Australia, New Zealand, and the United States that was signed in 1951, and from which New Zealand h
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Australian, New Zealand, and United States aircraft during a military exercise in 1982
U.S. General Westmoreland talks to the commander of the New Zealand artillery battery alongside Australian senior officers in Vietnam, in 1967.
US President George W. Bush and Australian Prime Minister John Howard on 10 September 2001. Howard was in Washington during the 11 September attacks.
In 1984, Prime Minister David Lange banned nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed ships from using New Zealand ports or entering New Zealand waters. Under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and
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…era as part of its collective response to the threat of communism during the Cold War. New Zealand was suspended from ANZUS in 1986 as it initiated a nuclear-free zone in its territorial waters. In late 2012, the United States lifted a 26-year-old ban on visits by New Zealand warships to US Department of Defense and…
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Prime Minister David Lange worked towards forging anti-nuclear sentiment as part of New Zealand's self-identity.
The vessel Rainbow Warrior (pictured in 1981) was bombed and sunk by French intelligence agents.
An anti-nuclear activist hands out peace cranes in Wellington