Nuclear Threats, Nuclear Fear and the Cold War of the 1980s (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together cutting-edge scholarship from the United States and Europe to address political as well as cultural responses to both the arms race of the 1980s and the ascent of nuclear energy as a second, controversial dimension of the nuclear age. Diverse in its topics and disciplinary approaches, Nuclear Threats, Nuclear Fear and the Cold War of the 1980s makes a fundamental contribution to the emerging historiography of the 1980s as a whole. As of now, the era's nuclear tensions have been addressed by scholars mostly from the standpoint of security studies, focused on the geo-strategic deliberations of political elites and at the level of state policy. Yet nuclear anxieties, as the essays in this volume document, were so pervasive that they profoundly shaped the era's culture, its habits of mind, and its politics, far beyond the domain of policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108627429
• Artikelnr.: 50463297

Inhaltsangabe

1. Nuclear winter prophecies of doom and images of desolation during the
Second Cold War Wilfried Mausbach; 2. Atomic nightmares and biological
citizens at Three Mile Island Natasha Zaretsky; 3. Missile bases as
concentration camps: the role of National Socialism, the Second World War,
and the Holocaust in the West German discourse on nuclear armament Eckart
Conze; 4. Will you sing about the missiles? British antinuclear protest
music of the 1980s William M. Knoblauch; 5. From artists for peace to the
Green Caterpillar: cultural activism and electoral politics in 1980s West
Germany Martin Klimke and Laura Stapane; 6. A tenuous peace: international
antinuclear activism in the East German Writers Union during the 1980s
Thomas Goldstein; 7. The 'example of Wyhl': how grassroots protest in the
Rhine Valley shaped West Germany's antinuclear movement Stephen Milder; 8.
No nukes and front porch politics: environmental protest culture and
practice on the second Cold War home front Michael Stewart Foley; 9. Global
micropolitics: toward a transnational history of grassroots nuclear-free
zones Susanne Schregel; 10. European nuclear disarmament: transnational
peace campaigning in the 1980s Patrick Burke; 11. A case of 'Hollanditis':
the interchurch peace council and the Christian peace movement in Western
Europe Sebastian Kalden; 12. Peace through strength? The impact of the
antinuclear uprising on the Carter and Reagan administrations Lawrence S.
Wittner; 13. Did protest matter? The influence of the peace movement on the
West German government and the Social Democratic Party, 1977-83 Tim Geiger
and Jan Hansen; 14. Why was there no 'accidental armageddon' discourse in
France? How defense intellectuals, peace movements, and public opinion
rethought the Cold War during the Euromissile crisis Katrin Rücker; 15.
Building trust: the G7 summits and international leadership in nuclear
politics Enrico Böhm.