Nuclear threats, nuclear fear, and the Cold War in the 1980s / Eckart Conze, Philipps-University Marburg, Martin Klimke, New York University, Abu Dhabi, Jeremy Varon,The New School.

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English
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New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2017]
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xvi, 370 pages ; 24 cm.

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    Publications of the German Historical Institute [More in this series]
    Notes
    "This book originated in a global conference in 2010, "Accidental Armageddons: The Nuclear Crisis and the Culture of the Second Cold War, 1975-1989." Hosted by the German Historical Institute (GHI), the gathering was co-sponsored by New York University, the National Security Archive, and the New School for Social Research/Eugene Lang College"--Acknowledgements.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction: Between Accidental Armaggedons and Winnable Wars: Nuclear Threats and Nuclear Fears in the 1980s / Eckart Conze, Martin Klimke, Jeremy Varon
    • Defining Threat: Nuclear Dangers and the Moral Imagination Nuclear Winter: Prophecies of Doom and Images of Desolation During the Second Cold War / Wilfried Mausbach
    • Atomic Nightmares and Biological Citizens at Three Mile Island / Natasha Zaretsky
    • 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
    • Will You Sing About the Missiles?: British Anti-Nuclear Protest Music of the 1980s / William Knoblauch
    • From Artists for Peace to the Green Caterpillar: Cultural Activism and Electoral Politics in 1980s West Germany / Laura Stapane and Martin Klimke
    • A Tenuous Peace: International Anti-Nuclear Activism in the East German Writers Union in the 1980s / Thomas Goldstein
    • The Example of Wyhl: How Grassroots Protest in the Rhine Valley Shaped the West German Anti-Nuclear Movement / Stephen Milder
    • No Nukes and Front Porch Politics: Environmental Protest Culture and Practice on the Second Cold War Home Front / Michael Foley
    • Global Micropolitics: Towards a Transnational History of Grassroots Nuclear Free Zones / Susanne Schregel
    • "We Envisage a European-Wide Campaign, In Which Every Kind of Exchange Takes Place": European Nuclear Disarmament in the West European Peace Movement of the 1980s / Patrick Burke
    • A Case of Hollanditis: The Interchurch Peace Council in the Netherlands and the Christian Peace Movement in Western Europe / Sebastian Kalden
    • Peace through Strength?: The Impact of the Antinuclear Uprising on the Carter and Reagan Administrations / Lawrence Wittner
    • Did Protest Matter?: The Influence of the Peace Movement on the West German Government and the Social Democratic Party, 1977-1983 / Tim Geiger and Jan Hansen
    • Why is there no Accidental Armageddon Discourse in France?: How Defence Intellectuals, Peace Movements, and Public Opinion Rethought the Cold War During the Euromissile Crisis / Katrin Ruecker
    • Building Trust: The G7 Summits and International Leadership in Nuclear Politics / Enrico Boehm.
    ISBN
    • 9781107136281 ((hardcover))
    • 1107136288 ((hardcover))
    LCCN
    2016026287
    OCLC
    957077700
    Other standard number
    • 40026720942
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