Introduction : between accidental armageddons and winnable wars: nuclear threats and nuclear fears in the 1980s / Eckart Conze, Martin Klimke, and Jeremy Varon Part I: Defining threat : nuclear dangers and the moral imagination -- 1 Nuclear winter : prophecies of doom and images of desolation during the Second Cold War / Wilfried Mausbach 2 Atomic nightmares and biological citizens at Three Mile Island / Natasha Zaretsky 3 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 Part II: Popular culture -- 4 "Will you sing about the missiles?" : British antinuclear protest music of the 1980s / William M. Knoblauch 5 From Artists for Peace to the Green Caterpillar : cultural activism and electoral politics in 1980s West Germany / Martin Klimke and Laura Stapane 6 A tenuous peace : international antinuclear activism in the East German Writers Union during the 1980s / Thomas Goldstein Part III: Local and transnational activism -- 7 The "Example of Wyhl" : how grassroots protest in the Rhine Valley shaped West Germany's antinuclear movement / Stephen Milder 8 No Nukes and front porch politics : environmental protest culture and practice on the Second Cold War home front / Michael Stewart Foley 9 Global micropolitics : toward a transnational history of grassroots nuclear-free zones / Susanne Schregel 10 European Nuclear Disarmament : transnational peace campaigning in the 1980s / Patrick Burke 11 A case of Hollanditis : the Interchurch Peace Council in the Netherlands and the Christian peace movement in Western Europe / Sebastian Kalden Part IV: The challenge for high politics -- 12 Peace through strength? : the impact of the antinuclear uprising on the Carter and Reagan administrations / Lawrence S. Wittner 13 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 14 Why was there no "accidental armageddon" discourse in France? how defense intellectuals, peace movements, and public opinion rethought the Cold War during the Euromissile crisis / Katrin Rücker Building trust : the G7 summits and international leadership in nuclear politics / Enrico Böhm. |