Ban The Bomb

Author : Ray Acheson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786614919

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Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy by Ray Acheson Pdf

Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy offers a look inside the antinuclear movement and its recent successful campaign to ban the bomb. From scrappy organizing to winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 and achieving a landmark UN treaty banning nuclear weapons, this book narrates the journey of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and developments in feminist disarmament activism. Acheson explains the process through which diplomats, activists, and nuclear survivors worked together to elevate the horrific humanitarian and environmental impacts of nuclear weapons, develop new international law categorically prohibiting the bomb, challenge the nuclear orthodoxy, and strengthen norms for disarmament and peace. Told from the perspective of a queer feminist antimilitarist organizer who was involved from the start of the process through to the treaty’s adoption, the book utilizes interviews with dozens of participants, as well as critical theoretical perspectives about transnational advocacy networks, discourse change, and intersectional feminist action. It is meant to provide useful insights for anyone trying to make change amidst structures of power and politics.

Author : Michael Levy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783838214894

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Ban the Bomb! by Michael Levy Pdf

During the 1950s, Michael Randle helped pioneer a new form of direct action against nuclear war, based on the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. At the forefront of the British campaign, he worked closely with Peace News editor Hugh Brock (1914–1985) and other distinguished ‘anti-nuclear pacifists’ such as Pat Arrowsmith, April Carter, and Ian Dixon, serving as chairman of the Direct Action Committee against Nuclear War (1958-1961) and secretary of the Committee of 100 (1960-1961). In 1966, he helped ‘spring’ the Russian spy George Blake from Wormwood Scrubs Prison. Thereafter, he campaigned vigorously on behalf of the Greek democratic opposition, conscientious objectors, and Soviet dissidents. He has always been a man of rare candor and singular energy and principles, even enduring imprisonment for his beliefs. Nowadays, Michael lives in Shipley near Bradford, where he continues to write as a respected expert on ‘people power’. Martin Levy’s interviews with Michael Randle introduce the reader to a tumultuous life that is nothing short of extraordinary.

Author : David Cortright
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139471855

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Peace by David Cortright Pdf

Veteran scholar and peace activist David Cortright offers a definitive history of the human striving for peace and an analysis of its religious and intellectual roots. This authoritative, balanced, and highly readable volume traces the rise of peace advocacy and internationalism from their origins in earlier centuries through the mass movements of recent decades: the pacifist campaigns of the 1930s, the Vietnam antiwar movement, and the waves of disarmament activism that peaked in the 1980s. Also explored are the underlying principles of peace - nonviolence, democracy, social justice, and human rights - all placed within a framework of 'realistic pacifism'. Peace brings the story up-to-date by examining opposition to the Iraq War and responses to the so-called 'war on terror'. This is history with a modern twist, set in the context of current debates about 'the responsibility to protect', nuclear proliferation, Darfur, and conflict transformation.

Author : Siddharth Mallavarapu
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : International law
ISBN : 8131701174

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Banning the Bomb by Siddharth Mallavarapu Pdf

Author : Lawrence S. Wittner
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804771245

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Confronting the Bomb by Lawrence S. Wittner Pdf

Confronting the Bomb tells the dramatic, inspiring story of how citizen activism helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war. This abbreviated version of Lawrence Wittner's award-winning trilogy, The Struggle Against the Bomb, shows how a worldwide, grassroots campaign—the largest social movement of modern times—challenged the nuclear priorities of the great powers and, ultimately, thwarted their nuclear ambitions. Based on massive research in the files of peace and disarmament organizations and in formerly top secret government records, extensive interviews with antinuclear activists and government officials, and memoirs and other published materials, Confronting the Bomb opens a unique window on one of the most important issues of the modern era: survival in the nuclear age. It covers the entire period of significant opposition to the bomb, from the final stages of the Second World War up to the present. Along the way, it provides fascinating glimpses of the interaction of key nuclear disarmament activists and policymakers, including Albert Einstein, Harry Truman, Albert Schweitzer, Norman Cousins, Nikita Khrushchev, Bertrand Russell, Andrei Sakharov, Linus Pauling, Dwight Eisenhower, Harold Macmillan, John F. Kennedy, Randy Forsberg, Mikhail Gorbachev, Helen Caldicott, E.P. Thompson, and Ronald Reagan. Overall, however, it is a story of popular mobilization and its effectiveness.

Author : Jean Krasno,Elisabeth Szeli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1626379246

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Banning the Bomb by Jean Krasno,Elisabeth Szeli Pdf

Author : Oliver Buchholz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 364002379X

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"Ban the Bomb" - Pacifism and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament by Oliver Buchholz Pdf

Author : Mordechai Melamud,Paul Meerts,I. William Zartman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107660878

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Banning the Bang or the Bomb? by Mordechai Melamud,Paul Meerts,I. William Zartman Pdf

The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), negotiated between 1994 and 1996, is the latest development in the nuclear arms control regime. It continues to serve a vital role in preserving the privileged status of the nuclear weapons states and barring the way to proliferation. Banning the Bang or the Bomb? brings together a team of leading international experts who together analyse its negotiation as a model of regime creation, examining collective dynamics, the behaviour of individual countries, and the nature of specific issues. The book offers practical guidance and training for members of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization future inspectorate to help negotiate their way during an on-site inspection (OSI) in an inspected state. This is a valuable resource for researchers and professionals alike that turns an analysis of what has happened into a manual for what is about to happen.

Author : Philip Taubman
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062098030

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The Partnership by Philip Taubman Pdf

Offering a clear analysis of the danger of nuclear terrorism and how it can be prevented, The Partnership sheds light on one of the most divisive security issues facing Washington today. Award-winning New York Times journalist Philip Taubman illuminates our vulnerability in the face of this pressing terrorist threat—and the unlikely efforts of five key Cold War players to eliminate the nuclear arsenal they helped create. Bob Woodward calls The Partnership a “brilliant, penetrating study of nuclear threats, present and past,” and David Kennedy writes that it is “indispensable reading for all who would understand the desperate urgency of containing the menace of nuclear proliferation.”

Author : Alexander Kmentt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000393484

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The Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons by Alexander Kmentt Pdf

This book chronicles the genesis of the negotiations that led to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), which challenged the established nuclear order. The work provides readers with an authoritative account of the complex evolution of the ‘Humanitarian Initiative’ (HI) and the negotiation history of the TPNW. It includes a close analysis of internal strategy documents and communications in the author’s possession which trace the tactical and political decisions of a small group of state actors. By demonstrating the unacceptable humanitarian consequences and uncontrollable risks that these weapons pose to everyone’s security, the HI convinced many states to ban nuclear weapons and reject the policy of nuclear deterrence as unsustainable and illegitimate. As such, this book is a case-study of multilateral diplomacy and cooperation between state and civil society actors. It also contains a full discussion of both sides of the nuclear argument and assesses the extent to which the HI and the TPNW have moved the dial and present opportunities for transformational change. This book will be of much interest to students of nuclear disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation, diplomacy, global governance, and International Relations in general.

Author : Milton Katz
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1986-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015012146018

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Ban the Bomb by Milton Katz Pdf

In 1957, a number of leading American liberals and pacifists formed SANE as the stimulus for an ad hoc citizens campaign to prohibit atmospheric nuclear testing and promote international disarmament. Six years later, following the conclusion of the partial Test-Ban Treaty, SANE was reorganized as a permanent operation. It quickly became the basepoint for liberal opposition to the Vietnam War, and a mainstay of the American peace movement. Now Katz has written the definitive account of SANE. He skillfully traces the organization from its fight for the test-ban treaty through its post-Vietnam struggle for arms control and a strengthened world order. He sensitively documents the bitter infighting that has wracked SANE, and he persuasively indicates its limited but real effect on U.S. foreign policy makers. Well-researched, clearly written, and highly recommended. Charles DeBenedetti, History Dept., Univ. of Toledo -Library Journal.

Author : Lawrence S. Wittner
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804748624

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Toward Nuclear Abolition by Lawrence S. Wittner Pdf

The final volume in the trilogy "The Struggle Against the Bomb", this book presents the inspiring and dramatic story of how citizen activists helped curb the arms race and prevent nuclear war.

Author : Tom Sauer,Jorg Kustermans,Barbara Segaert
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030266882

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Non-Nuclear Peace by Tom Sauer,Jorg Kustermans,Barbara Segaert Pdf

This volume examines the possibility of a world without nuclear weapons. It starts from the observation that, although nuclear deterrence has long been dominant in debates about war and peace, recent events show that ridicule and stigmatization of nuclear weapons and their possessors is on the rise. The idea of non-nuclear peace has been around since the beginning of the nuclear revolution, but it may be staging a return. The first part reconstructs the criticism of nuclear peace, both past and present, with a particular emphasis on technology. The second part focuses on the most revolutionary change since the beginning of the nuclear revolution, namely the Humanitarian Initiative and the resulting Nuclear Ban Treaty (2017), which allows imagining non-nuclear peace anew. The third and last part explores the practical and institutional prospects of a peace order without nuclear weapons. If non-nuclear peace advocates want to convince skeptics, they have to come up with practical solutions in the realm of global governance or world government.

Author : George Perkovich
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0520232100

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India's Nuclear Bomb by George Perkovich Pdf

Publisher Fact Sheet The definitive history of India's long flirtation with nuclear capability, culminating in the nuclear tests that surprised the world in May 1998.

Author : Michael E. O'Hanlon
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815725435

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A Skeptic's Case for Nuclear Disarmament by Michael E. O'Hanlon Pdf

In 2007 two former U.S. secretaries of state, a defense secretary, and a former senator wrote persuasively in the Wall Street Journal that the time had come to move seriously toward a nuclear-free world. Almost two years later, the Global Zero movement was born with its chief aim to rid the world of such weapons once and for all by 2030. But is it realistic or even wise to envision a world without nuclear weapons? More and more people seem to think so. Barack Obama has declared “America’s commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.” But that is easier said than done. Michael O’Hanlon places his own indelible stamp on this critical issue, putting forth a “friendly skeptic’s case for nuclear disarmament.” Calls to “ban the bomb” are as old as the bomb itself, but the pace and organization of nonproliferation campaigns have picked up greatly recently. The growing Global Zero movement, for example, wants treaty negotiations to begin in 2019. Would this be prudent or even feasible in a world that remains dangerous, divided, and unpredictable? After all, America’s nuclear arsenal has been its military trump card for much of the period since World War II. Pursuing a nuclear weapons ban prematurely or carelessly could alarm allies, leading them to consider building their own weapons—the opposite of the intended effect. O’Hanlon clearly presents the dangers of nuclear weapons and the advantages of disarmament as a goal. But even once an accord is in place, he notes, temporary suspension of restrictions may be necessary in response to urgent threats such as nuclear “cheating” or discovery of an advanced biological weapons program. To take all nuclear options off the table forever strengthens the hand of those that either do not make that pledge or do not honor it. For the near term, traditional approaches to arms control, including dismantling existing bomb inventories, can pave the way to make a true nonproliferation regime possible in the decades ahead.