A new book, Confronting the Bomb — A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement by frequent PeaceWorker contributor Dr. Lawrence S. Wittner is now available from Stanford University Press as part of its Stanford Nuclear Age series.
The book 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.
“The saga of the world disarmament movement, whose complex strands Lawrence Wittner has brilliantly woven together . . . , deserves the widest possible readership.” — Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Φ
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