By Lawrence S. Wittner
Confronting the Bomb tells the dramatic, inspiring tale of the way citizen activism helped lower the nuclear fingers race and stop nuclear struggle. This abbreviated model of Lawrence Wittner's award-winning trilogy, The fight opposed to the Bomb, indicates how a global, grassroots campaign—the biggest social circulate of recent times—challenged the nuclear priorities of the good powers and, eventually, thwarted their nuclear targets. in accordance with sizeable learn within the records of peace and disarmament enterprises and in previously most sensible mystery govt files, vast interviews with antinuclear activists and govt officers, and memoirs and different released fabrics, Confronting the Bomb opens a different window on the most very important problems with the trendy period: survival within the nuclear age. It covers the complete interval of vital competition to the bomb, from the ultimate levels of the second one international struggle as much as the current. alongside the best way, it presents interesting glimpses of the interplay of key nuclear disarmament activists and policymakers, together with 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. total, even though, it's a tale of well known mobilization and its effectiveness.
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Meanwhile, the Soviet press churned out stories about Soviet citizens eagerly lining up to sign the Stockholm petition and about allegedly happy Soviet workers who were overfulfilling their production quotas to build up the strength of the Soviet Union and, thus, bolster peace. ” Not surprisingly, the leading organizations and personalities in the nonaligned movement gave the Communist-led peace campaign a chilly reception. Although individual pacifists sometimes participated in Communist-led ventures, the pacifist internationals refused to send delegates to the world conferences organized by the Communist-led movement or to support them in other ways.
Although the pacifist Peace Pledge Union had lost the mass membership it had attained in the 1930s, together with the British FOR and the Friends Peace Committee it condemned the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, assailed the growing nuclear arms race, held Hiroshima Day demonstrations, and promoted plans for nuclear arms control and disarmament. Meanwhile, working among Britain’s scientists, Joseph Rotblat helped organize the Atomic Scientists’ Association (ASA). Formally launched in the spring of 1946, the ASA served as the British counterpart to the Federation of American Scientists.
Meanwhile, the Soviet press churned out stories about Soviet citizens eagerly lining up to sign the Stockholm petition and about allegedly happy Soviet workers who were overfulfilling their production quotas to build up the strength of the Soviet Union and, thus, bolster peace. ” Not surprisingly, the leading organizations and personalities in the nonaligned movement gave the Communist-led peace campaign a chilly reception. Although individual pacifists sometimes participated in Communist-led ventures, the pacifist internationals refused to send delegates to the world conferences organized by the Communist-led movement or to support them in other ways.
