Saving the Earth

America now has 30,000. It is enough to — it is said — 'overkill' every Russian person 40 times.

– Anti-nuclear campaigner Helen Caldiott on the number of nuclear weapons in the United States, while addressing the Select Committee on Disarmament

... the two super powers who behave like four-year-old little boys in a sandpit, arguing about whose got the biggest one. That really is what the argument is about.

– Anti-nuclear campaigner Helen Caldiott on America and Russia's dangerous attitude towards nuclear weapons

President Reagan is building weapons that make nuclear war in the future a mathematical certainty.

– Anti-nuclear campaigner Helen Caldiott addresses the Select Committee on Disarmament, at the start of this documentary

Television wouldn't touch it. They said they'd done Helen Caldicott and the nuclear issue. We transferred it to video and it has been well used by peace groups.

– Director Gaylene Preston

That was kind of a favour for the physicians down the road who needed a record of Helen Caldicott's time in New Zealand.

– Director Gaylene Preston

It doesn't matter about your jobs, it doesn't matter about anything you do, if in the next four years, five years, two years, we blow up the planet.

– Anti-nuclear campaigner Helen Caldiott in a speech to fellow activist

It sounds like science fiction, but it's not.

– Politician Margaret Shields, on the dangers nuclear warfare poses to New Zealand