Nuclear threats, nuclear fear, and the Cold War of the 1980s

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...

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Other Authors: Conze, Eckart (Editor), Klimke, Martin (Editor), Varon, Jeremy (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: New York Cambridge University Press 2017
Series:Publications of the German Historical Institute
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505 0 |a 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 --  
505 0 |a 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 --  
505 0 |a 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 
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520 |a 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