Moreover, nuclear energy has never been economic, despite the massive state subsidies it has received for decades. Even now funding still pours into the nuclear sector at the expense of renewable resources like solar or wind energy.
Greenpeace was born when a group of peace activists tried to sail into the US nuclear weapons testing zone near Amchitka, Alaska in 1971.
The scheduled test still went ahead but world opinion was changed and today, 30 years on, there are no nuclear weapons tests by the main nuclear weapons states.
Check out our 'zoom on doom' map for those countries with nuclear weapons programmes.
However, there are still many nuclear threats facing the earth, which require campaigning against until there is a nuclear free world.
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