Title Confronting the bomb : a short history of the world nuclear disarmament movement / Lawrence S. Wittner

Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2009 ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 254 pages) Series Stanford nuclear age series Stanford nuclear age series. Contents The secret struggle -- The rise of popular protest, 1945-1953 -- Government response, 1945-1953 -- Movement renaissance, 1954-1958 -- Victories and retreats, 1958-1970 -- A third wave, 1971-1980 -- Peace begins to break out, 1981-1985 -- Disarmament triumphant, 1985-1992 -- Waning movement, reviving arms race, 1993-present Summary Confronting the Bomb tells the dramatic, inspiring story of how citizen activism helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war. This abbreviated version of Lawrence Wittner's award-winning trilogy, The Struggle Against the Bomb, shows how a worldwide, grassroots campaign--the largest social movement of modern times--challenged the nuclear priorities of the great powers and, ultimately, thwarted their nuclear ambitions. Based on massive research in the files of peace and disarmament organizations and in formerly top secret government records, extensive interviews with antinuclear activists and government officials, and memoirs and other published materials, Confronting the Bomb opens a unique window on one of the most important issues of the modern era: survival in the nuclear age. It covers the entire period of significant opposition to the bomb, from the final stages of the Second World War up to the present. Along the way, it provides fascinating glimpses of the interaction of key nuclear disarmament activists and policymakers, including Albert Einstein, Harry Truman, Albert Schweitzer, Norman Cousins, Nikita Khrushchev, Bertrand Russell, Andrei Sakharov, Linus Pauling, Dwight Eisenhower, Harold Macmillan, John F. Kennedy, Randy Forsberg, Mikhail Gorbachev, Helen Caldicott, E.P. Thompson, and Ronald Reagan. Overall, however, it is a story of popular mobilization and its effectiveness Notes Includes index English Print version record Subject Antinuclear movement -- History Nuclear disarmament -- History POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Arms Control. Antinuclear movement Nuclear disarmament Atomare Abrüstung Protestbewegung peace movements -- History. nuclear disarmament -- History. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780804771245 0804771243

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