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Struggle Against the Bomb, The: Volume One, One World or None: a History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement Through 1953 New edition

Hardback by Wittner, Lawrence S.

Struggle Against the Bomb, The: Volume One, One World or None: a History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement Through 1953

£72.00

ISBN:
9780804721417
Publication Date:
1 Sep 1993
Edition/language:
New edition / English
Publisher:
Stanford University Press
Pages:
476 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 13 - 15 Aug 2026
Struggle Against the Bomb, The: Volume One, One World or None: a History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement Through 1953

Description

A Stanford University Press classic.

Contents

Part I. The Secret Struggle: 1. Critics and the international crisis, 1913-43; 2. Growing resistance, 1943-45; Part II. The Nonaligned Movement, 1945-51: 3. From the ashes: world peace activism and the movement in Japan; 4. America's nuclear nightmare; 5. A new sense of fear: Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand; 6. The beginning or the end? France, Germany and Italy; 7. Confronting 'a still greater catastrophe': elsewhere in Western Europe; 8. Muted opposition: the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and the Third World; 9. The international dimension; Part III. The Communist-led Movement, 1945-51: 10. 'Against the warmongers': the development of the communist-led peace movement; 11. 'Comrades, turn east': the communist-led campaign in France, Great Britain and the United States; 12. 'We are not pacifists': the communist-led campaign in other non-communist nations; 13. 'Stalin is our peace': the communist-led campaign in communist nations; Part IV. Consequences: 14. The uneasy leader: the US government and the bomb; 15. In hot pursuit: British and Soviet nuclear policy; 16. Restive onlookers: the public policy response elsewhere; 17. Crisis and decline of the movement, 1950-53; Conclusion and epilogue: the new thinking and the old; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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