Greenpeace: An 'insane' vision that took flight 50 years ago


By AGENCY
A file photo of the bombed hull of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in the port of Auckland on July 9, 1985. Photo: Ross White/AFP

"Insane." That was teenager Barbara Stowe's reaction 50 years ago when her parents and the other founders of Greenpeace decided that they would send a boat to halt US nuclear tests.

But their conviction won over Stowe and her brother Robert, who witnessed these pathbreaking meetings in the family home in Vancouver to send a ship to Amchitka in Alaska.

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