Nuclear Freeze In A Cold War
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Author | : Thomas R. Rochon |
Publisher | : Lynne Rienner Publishers |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Antinuclear movement |
ISBN | : 9781555877446 |
Twelve contributions apply recent theory on movements to the nuclear freeze movement of the 1980s. Subject areas include the development of the freeze movement, its social and political impact, and the question of whether the movement simply disintegrated or was transformed into other forms of activism. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Henry Richard Maar III |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2022-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501760904 |
In Freeze!, Henry Richard Maar III chronicles the rise of the transformative and transnational Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. Amid an escalating Cold War that pitted the nuclear arsenal of the United States against that of the Soviet Union, the grassroots peace movement emerged sweeping the nation and uniting people around the world. The solution for the arms race that the Campaign proposed: a bilateral freeze on the building, testing, and deployment of nuclear weapons on the part of two superpowers of the US and the USSR. That simple but powerful proposition stirred popular sentiment and provoked protest in the streets and on screen from New York City to London to Berlin. Movie stars and scholars, bishops and reverends, governors and congress members, and, ultimately, US President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev took a stand for or against the Freeze proposal. With the Reagan administration so openly discussing the prospect of winnable and survivable nuclear warfare like never before, the Freeze movement forcefully translated decades of private fears into public action. Drawing upon extensive archival research in recently declassified materials, Maar illuminates how the Freeze campaign demonstrated the power and importance of grassroots peace activism in all levels of society. The Freeze movement played an instrumental role in shaping public opinion and American politics, helping establish the conditions that would bring the Cold War to an end.
Author | : William M. Knoblauch |
Publisher | : Culture and Politics in the Company |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781625342751 |
The early 1980s were a tense time. The nuclear arms race was escalating, Reagan administration officials bragged about winning a nuclear war, and superpower diplomatic relations were at a new low. Nuclear war was a real possibility and antinuclear activism surged. By 1982 the Nuclear Freeze campaign had become the largest peace movement in American history. In support, celebrities, authors, publishers, and filmmakers saturated popular culture with critiques of Reagan's arms buildup, which threatened to turn public opinion against the president. Alarmed, the Reagan administration worked to co-opt the rhetoric of the nuclear freeze and contain antinuclear activism. Recently declassified White House memoranda reveal a concerted campaign to defeat activists' efforts. In this book, William M. Knoblauch examines these new sources, as well as the influence of notable personalities like Carl Sagan and popular culture such as the film The Day After, to demonstrate how cultural activism ultimately influenced the administration's shift in rhetoric and, in time, its stance on the arms race.
Author | : David Meyer |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1990-06-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Index and bibliography included.
Author | : Keith B. Payne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Nuclear arms control |
ISBN | : |
Co-published with Abt Books, this volume is a thorough and dispassionate inquiry into the concept of a mutual U.S.-Soviet freeze on the testing, production and deployment of nuclear weapons. It explores not only the strategic and arms control implications of a nuclear freeze, but also its attendant political and moral issues. The book represents a unique contribution to the nuclear policy debate: while taking, on balance, a position against a freeze, it does so after a careful consideration of the arguments for that proposal.
Author | : Aaron Donaghy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2021-04-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108838030 |
The compelling account of the last great Cold War struggle between America and the Soviet Union that took place between 1977 and 1985.
Author | : David Cortright |
Publisher | : Westview Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1993-10-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Andrew Rojecki |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780252068249 |
"Some of the most important strategic decisions of our times can be traced to compelling official fictions such as Kennedy's ""missile gap"" and Reagan's ""window of vulnerability."" Exploring links between nuclear arms policy and the visibility of oppositional groups in the media, Andrew Rojecki assesses the extent to which antinuclear movements have succeeded in debunking official fictions, raising public consciousness, and reorienting government policy. Silencing the Opposition examines how two cycles of political protest- the test ban movement of the first Eisenhower and the Kennedy administrations and the nuclear freeze movement of Reagan's first term-were represented by the media. He finds that the space devoted to the opposition as well as the quality of the coverage varied widely from the first to the second period, reflecting vastly different climates of public opinion and foreign policy. Rojecki determines that a subtle shift in political culture has reduced the grounds of legitimacy for citizen protest. This shift finds its roots in the rationalization of policy making that characterizes large government agencies, think tanks, and university departments. As public debate over nuclear politics has become increasingly restricted, the potential for ordinary citizens to influence policy has become more and more circumscribed while nuclear weapons have continued to proliferate."
Author | : Robert J. McMahon |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2021-02-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198859546 |
Vividly written and based on up-to-date scholarship, this title provides an interpretive overview of the international history of the Cold War.
Author | : Eckart Conze |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107136288 |
The book brings together cutting-edge scholarship from the United States and Europe to address political and cultural responses to the arms race of the 1980s.