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confronting the bomb a short history of the world nuclear disarmament movement
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 wittners 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 .
hardcover stanford university press 2009 isbn13 9780804756310 isbn10 0804756317
abridged n isbn 13 9780804756310 number in series 1 number of pages 254 publisher stanford univ pr release date 62135769600000 series title stanford nuclear age series