Research Catalog

Title

Nuclear threats, nuclear fear, and the Cold War of the 1980s / [edited by] Eckart Conze, Philipps-University Marburg; Martin Klimke, New York University Abu Dhabi; Jeremy Varon, The New School.

Publication

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Details

Additional Authors

• Conze, Eckart
• Klimke, Martin
• Varon, Jeremy, 1969-

Description

xvi, 370 pages; 24 cm

Series Statement

Publications of the German Historical Institute

Uniform Title

Publications of the German Historical Institute.

Subject

• Cold War (1945-1989)
• 1975-1995
• Antinuclear movement > History > Congresses
• World politics > 1975-1985 > Congresses
• World politics > 1985-1995 > Congresses
• Cold War > Congresses
• Antinuclear movement
• World politics

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

Note

• "This book originated in a global conference in 2010, "Accidental Armageddons: The Nuclear Crisis and the Culture of the Second Cold War, 1975-1989." Hosted by the German Historical Institute (GHI), the gathering was co-sponsored by New York University, the National Security Archive, and the New School for Social Research/Eugene Lang College"--Acknowledgements.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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 -- 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 -- 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.

Call Number

JFE 17-433

ISBN

• 9781107136281
• 1107136288

LCCN

• 2016026287
• 40026720942

OCLC

957077700

Title

Nuclear threats, nuclear fear, and the Cold War of the 1980s / [edited by] Eckart Conze, Philipps-University Marburg; Martin Klimke, New York University Abu Dhabi; Jeremy Varon, The New School.

Publisher

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Publications of the German Historical Institute

Publications of the German Historical Institute.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connect to:

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Table of contents only

Chronological Term

1975-1995

Added Author

Conze, Eckart, editor.

Klimke, Martin, editor.

Varon, Jeremy, 1969- editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40026720942

Research Call Number

JFE 17-433