Nuclear Freeze In A Cold War

Author : William M. Knoblauch
Publisher : Culture and Politics in the Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1625342756

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Nuclear Freeze in a Cold War by William M. Knoblauch Pdf

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 : Thomas R. Rochon,David S. Meyer
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Antinuclear movement
ISBN : 1555877443

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Coalitions & Political Movements by Thomas R. Rochon,David S. Meyer Pdf

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
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501760891

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Freeze! by Henry Richard Maar III Pdf

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 : Andrew Rojecki
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0252068246

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Silencing the Opposition by Andrew Rojecki Pdf

"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 : Keith B. Payne,Colin S. Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Nuclear arms control
ISBN : UCAL:B3891743

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The Nuclear Freeze Controversy by Keith B. Payne,Colin S. Gray Pdf

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 : Stephanie L. Freeman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512824230

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Dreams for a Decade by Stephanie L. Freeman Pdf

During the 1980s, millions of ordinary individuals around the world mobilized in support of nuclear disarmament. Although U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev were not part of these grassroots movements, they too wanted to eliminate nuclear weapons. Nuclear abolitionism was a diverse and global phenomenon. In Dreams for a Decade, Stephanie L. Freeman draws on newly declassified material from multiple continents to examine nuclear abolitionists' influence on the trajectory of the Cold War's last decade. Freeman reveals that nuclear abolitionism played a significant yet unappreciated role in ending the Cold War. Grassroots and government nuclear abolitionists shifted U.S. and Soviet nuclear arms control paradigms from arms limitation to arms reduction. This paved the way for the reversal of the U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms race, which began with the landmark 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. European peace activists also influenced Gorbachev's "common European home" initiative and support for freedom of choice in Europe, which prevented the Soviet leader from intervening to stop the 1989 East European revolutions. These revolutions ripped the fabric of the Iron Curtain, which had divided Europe for more than four decades. Despite their inability to eliminate nuclear weapons, grassroots and government nuclear abolitionists deserve credit for playing a pivotal role in the Cold War's endgame. They also provide a model for enacting dramatic, positive change in a peaceful manner.

Author : Aaron Donaghy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108838030

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The Second Cold War by Aaron Donaghy Pdf

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
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1993-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029978908

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Peace Works by David Cortright Pdf

Author : Christopher A. Kojm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCAL:B4234029

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The Nuclear Freeze Debate by Christopher A. Kojm Pdf

Author : Pam Solo
Publisher : Ballinger Publishing Company
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015014597242

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From Protest to Policy by Pam Solo Pdf

Author : Steven E. Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015008602008

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The Nuclear Weapons Freeze and Arms Control by Steven E. Miller Pdf

Author : Sam Marullo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015026857527

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Ending the Cold War at Home by Sam Marullo Pdf

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Author : Lawrence S. Wittner
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Jeffrey W. Knopf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521626919

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Domestic Society and International Cooperation by Jeffrey W. Knopf Pdf

This book shows how peace movements affected US decisions to enter nuclear arms control talks during the Cold War. Most scholarship assumes that state policies on pursuing international cooperation are set by national leaders, in response either to international conditions, or to their own interests and ideas. By demonstrating the importance of public protest and citizen activism, Jeffrey Knopf shows how state preferences for cooperation can be shaped from below.

Author : Eckart Conze,Martin Klimke,Jeremy Varon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107136281

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Nuclear Threats, Nuclear Fear and the Cold War of the 1980s by Eckart Conze,Martin Klimke,Jeremy Varon Pdf

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.