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The Nuclear Crisis : The Arms Race, Cold War Anxiety, and the German Peace Movement of the 1980s / ed. by Christoph Becker-Schaum, Wilfried Mausbach, Martin Klimke, Philipp Gassert.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Protest, Culture & Society ; 19Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781785332678
  • 9781785332685
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.1/747094309048 23/eng/20240417
LOC classification:
  • JZ5584.G3 N83 2016
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Nuclear Crisis, NATO’s Double-Track Decision, and the Peace Movement of the 1980s -- Chapter 1 From Helsinki to Afghanistan: The CSCE Process and the Beginning of the Second Cold War -- Chapter 2 The NATO Double-Track Decision: Genesis and Implementation -- Chapter 3 SS-20 and Pershing II: Weapon Systems and the Dynamization of East-West Relations -- Chapter 4 NATO’s Double-Track Decision and East-West German Relations -- Chapter 5 Political Parties -- Chapter 6 Eco-pacifism: The Environmental Movement as a Source for the Peace Movement -- Chapter 7 Rationality of Fear: The Intellectual Foundations of the Peace Movement -- Chapter 8 The Institutional Organization of the Peace Movement -- Chapter 9 The Spaces and Places of the Peace Movement -- Chapter 10 The Protagonists of the Peace Movement -- Chapter 11 The Independent Peace Movement in East Germany -- Chapter 12 Visual and Media Strategies of the Peace Movement -- Chapter 13 The Churches -- Chapter 14 Trade Unions -- Chapter 15 The Police -- Chapter 16 “Men Build Missiles”: Th e Women’s Peace Movement -- Chapter 17 Nuclear Attack and Civil Defense: Preparing for the Worst-Case Scenario in Politics and Science -- Chapter 18 Nuclear Doomsday Scenarios in Film, Literature, and Music -- Chapter 19 A Triumph of Disarmament? Th e 1980s and the International Political System -- Index
Summary: In 1983, more than one million Germans joined together to protest NATO’s deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe. International media overflowed with images of marches, rallies, and human chains as protesters blockaded depots and agitated for disarmament. Though they failed to halt the deployment, the episode was a decisive one for German society, revealing deep divisions in the nation’s political culture while continuing to mobilize activists. This volume provides a comprehensive reference work on the “Euromissiles” crisis as experienced by its various protagonists, analyzing NATO’s diplomatic and military maneuvering and tracing the political, cultural, and moral discourses that surrounded the missiles’ deployment in East and West Germany.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Nuclear Crisis, NATO’s Double-Track Decision, and the Peace Movement of the 1980s -- Chapter 1 From Helsinki to Afghanistan: The CSCE Process and the Beginning of the Second Cold War -- Chapter 2 The NATO Double-Track Decision: Genesis and Implementation -- Chapter 3 SS-20 and Pershing II: Weapon Systems and the Dynamization of East-West Relations -- Chapter 4 NATO’s Double-Track Decision and East-West German Relations -- Chapter 5 Political Parties -- Chapter 6 Eco-pacifism: The Environmental Movement as a Source for the Peace Movement -- Chapter 7 Rationality of Fear: The Intellectual Foundations of the Peace Movement -- Chapter 8 The Institutional Organization of the Peace Movement -- Chapter 9 The Spaces and Places of the Peace Movement -- Chapter 10 The Protagonists of the Peace Movement -- Chapter 11 The Independent Peace Movement in East Germany -- Chapter 12 Visual and Media Strategies of the Peace Movement -- Chapter 13 The Churches -- Chapter 14 Trade Unions -- Chapter 15 The Police -- Chapter 16 “Men Build Missiles”: Th e Women’s Peace Movement -- Chapter 17 Nuclear Attack and Civil Defense: Preparing for the Worst-Case Scenario in Politics and Science -- Chapter 18 Nuclear Doomsday Scenarios in Film, Literature, and Music -- Chapter 19 A Triumph of Disarmament? Th e 1980s and the International Political System -- Index

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In 1983, more than one million Germans joined together to protest NATO’s deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe. International media overflowed with images of marches, rallies, and human chains as protesters blockaded depots and agitated for disarmament. Though they failed to halt the deployment, the episode was a decisive one for German society, revealing deep divisions in the nation’s political culture while continuing to mobilize activists. This volume provides a comprehensive reference work on the “Euromissiles” crisis as experienced by its various protagonists, analyzing NATO’s diplomatic and military maneuvering and tracing the political, cultural, and moral discourses that surrounded the missiles’ deployment in East and West Germany.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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