Outputs

Research, public scholarship and the work of building a counterarchive

A counterarchive does more than collect different documents

The official archive records the test. A counterarchive asks where the event travelled, who lived with its consequences, which evidence was never produced, and who has the authority to say when the event ended.

Counterarchives reads different records together without pretending they are interchangeable.

^{Pacific Peace Flotilla routes to Moruroa Atoll, 1995}

Four Investigations

The project is organised around four questions that connect law, resistance, evidence and repair.

01 LAW

How did law make - and challenge - the nuclear order?

Courts, treaties, jurisdiction, sovereignty, state responsibility, environmental harm and the legal afterlives of testing.

02 RESISTANCE

How did a Pacific movement become international law?

Indigenous leaders, activists, lawyers, churches, women, journalists and sailors moved arguments across borders and changed the language of decolonisation and disarmament.

03 EVIDENCE

Who decides what counts as proof?

Secrecy, meteorology, dosimetry, health studies, testimony, compensation files and independent reconstruction reveal the politics of what can be known.

04 REPAIR

What does justice require when the harm cannot simply be undone?

Recognition, healthcare, archives, environmental remediation,
memorialisation, compensation, responsibility and guarantees of
non-repetition.

Current Project Outputs

COUNTERARCHIVES DIALOGUES 2026

Three public conversations moving from memory and language, to evidence and proof, and finally to recognition and reparation.

After the Test
Making Nuclear Harm Visible
The Work of Repair

COUNTERARCHIVES PODCAST

A three-part public audio series developed from the Counterarchives Dialogues, subject to participant consent.

Literature and memory
Evidence and visibility
Recognition and repair

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

Academic publications connected to the project, with links to open-access versions whenever available.

International law
Nuclear histories
Environmental justice

Research Development

These questions remain open across the project and guide its developing publications, collaborations and public work.

⁰¹ How did law make - and challenge - the nuclear order?

⁰² How did a Pacific movement become international law?

⁰³ Who decides what counts as proof?

⁰⁴ What does justice require when the harm cannot simply be undone?