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Title The nuclear crisis : the arms race, Cold War anxiety, and the German peace movement of the 1980s / edited by Christoph Becker-Schaum, Philipp Gassert, Martin Klimke, Wilfried Mausbach, and Marianne Zepp.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 374 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Protest, culture and society ; volume 19
Protest, culture and society ; v. 19.
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 survey of 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"--Publisher's website
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction. The Nuclear Crisis, NATO's double-track decision, and the peace movement of the 1980s / Christoph Becker-Schuam, Philipp Gassert, Martin Klimke, Wilfried Mausbach, and Marianne Zepp -- From Helsinki to Afghanistan: the CSCE process and the beginning of the Second Cold War / Anja Hanisch -- The NATO double-track decision: genesis and implementation / Tim Geiger -- SS-20 and Pershing II: weapon systems and the dynamization of East-West relations / Oliver Bange -- NATO's double-track decision and East-West German relations / Hermann Wentker -- Political parties / Jan Hansen -- Eco-pacificsm: the environmental movement as a source for the peace movement / Silke Mende and Birgit Metzger -- Rationality of fear: the intellectual foundations of the peace movement / Marianne Zepp -- The institutional organization of the peace movement / Christoph Becker-Schaum -- The spaces and places of the peace movement / Susanne Schregel -- The protagonists of the peace movement / Saskia Richter -- The independent peace movement in East Germany / Rainer Eckert -- Visual and media strategies of the peace movement / Kathrin Fahlenbrach and Laura Stapane -- The churches / Sebsastian Kalden and Jan Ole Wiechmann -- Trade unions / Dietmar Süss -- The police / Michael Sturm -- "Men build missiles": the women's peace movement / Reinhild Kreis -- Nuclear attack and civil defense: preparing for the worst-case scenario in politics and science / Claudia Kemper -- Nuclear doomsday scenarios in film, literature, and music / Philipp Baur -- A triumph of disarmament? The 1980s and the international political system / Florian Pressler.
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Subject North Atlantic Treaty Organization -- History -- 20th century.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Peace movements -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Peace movements.
Germany.
Antinuclear movement -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Antinuclear movement.
Protest movements -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Protest movements.
Cold War -- Social aspects -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Cold War (1945-1989)
Social aspects.
Germany (West) -- Social conditions.
Germany (West)
Germany (East) -- Social conditions.
Germany (East)
Nuclear weapons -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Europe.
Nuclear disarmament -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Nuclear disarmament.
Arms race -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Arms race.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
Social conditions.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Nuclear weapons.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History.
Added Author Becker-Schaum, Christoph, 1952- editor.
Gassert, Philipp, editor.
Klimke, Martin, editor.
Mausbach, Wilfried, 1964- editor.
Zepp, Marianne, editor.
Added Title Arms race, Cold War anxiety, and the German peace movement of the 1980s
Other Form: Print version: Nuclear crisis. New York : Berghahn Books, 2016 9781785332678 (DLC) 2016019721 (OCoLC)936219716
ISBN 9781785332685 (electronic book)
1785332686 (electronic book)
9781785332678
1785332678