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Overview"The final volume in the trilogy ""The Struggle Against the Bomb"", this book presents the inspiring and dramatic story of how citizen activists helped curb the arms race and prevent nuclear war. Examining events from 1971 to 2003, the author continues the account he began in two earlier volumes, ""One World or None"" and ""Resisting the Bomb"". The book shows how pressure from the Nuclear Freeze campaign in the United States, the European Nuclear Disarmament campaign, and comparable movements around the world foiled the nuclear ambitions of hawkish government officials and forced the world toward nuclear arms control and disarmament. A leading historian and peace researcher, the author combines extensive scholarly research with an account of how the largest mass movement of modern times saved the world from nuclear annihilation." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lawrence S. WittnerPublisher: Stanford University Press Imprint: Stanford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 4.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 1.070kg ISBN: 9780804748612ISBN 10: 0804748616 Pages: 688 Publication Date: 06 August 2003 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsThe saga of the world disarmament movement, whose complex strands Lawrence Wittner has brilliantly and lucidly woven together in Toward Nuclear Abolition, deserves the widest possible readership and retelling. --Robert K. Musil, Executive Director and CEO of Physicians for Social Responsibility and professor at American University ...a monumental study that deserves to be widely read. --Internationale Politik Once again, for that great purpose, public opinion in all countries must be mobilised. Lawrence S. Wittner's Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Disarmament Movement helps in that task to perfection. Readers of his previous books will need no incitement to get their hands on this one. --Michael Foot, Tribune The saga of the world disarmament movement, whose complex strands Lawrence Wittner has brilliantly and lucidly woven together in Toward Nuclear Abolition, deserves the widest possible readership and retelling. --Robert K. Musil, Executive Director and CEO of Physicians for Social Responsibility and professor at American University For clues about how to save the planet from nuclear extinction, there is no better place to turn than to Lawrence S. Wittner's monumental three-volume study of the world disarmament movement from 1945 to the present. --The Progressive The final volume of Lawrence Wittner's trilogy is a major contribution to the history of the international peace movement. It covers every major event, organization and activist leader in recent decades and features the same rigorous research in many formerly unused sources, clear writing and even-handed approach that characterized his first two volumes. No single review can do it justice...We are all in debt to him for completing such a difficult project. --The Nonviolent Activist Wittner has it dead right: It's time to organize and press once again for serious arms control and disarmament. --History News Network Wittner's impressively researched, clearly written, and balanced assessment of the anti-nuclear-weapon movement belongs on the shelf not only of every serious student of the nuclear arms race but also of everyone who is concerned about the safety of humanity. --American Historical Review ...the most comprehensive and authoritative account available of the world nuclear disarmament movement in the most effective period of its history. --Millennium ...the most comprehensive and authoritative account available of the world nuclear disarmament movement in the most effective period of its history. -- Millennium Once again, for that great purpose, public opinion in all countries must be mobilised. Lawrence S. Wittner's Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Disarmament Movement helps in that task to perfection. Readers of his previous books will need no incitement to get their hands on this one. -- Michael Foot Tribune Wittner's impressively researched, clearly written, and balanced assessment of the anti-nuclear-weapon movement belongs on the shelf not only of every serious student of the nuclear arms race but also of everyone who is concerned about the safety of humanity. American Historical Review The final volume of Lawrence Wittner's trilogy is a major contribution to the history of the international peace movement. It covers every major event, organization and activist leader in recent decades and features the same rigorous research in many formerly unused sources, clear writing and even-handed approach that characterized his first two volumes. No single review can do it justice...We are all in debt to him for completing such a difficult project. The Nonviolent Activist ...a monumental study that deserves to be widely read. -- Internationale Politik For clues about how to save the planet from nuclear extinction, there is no better place to turn than to Lawrence S. Wittner's monumental three-volume study of the world disarmament movement from 1945 to the present. The Progressive Wittner has it dead right: It's time to organize and press once again for serious arms control and disarmament. History News Network The saga of the world disarmament movement, whose complex strands Lawrence Wittner has brilliantly and lucidly woven together in Toward Nuclear Abolition, deserves the widest possible readership and retelling. -- Robert K. Musil Executive Director and CEO of Physicians for Social Responsibility and professor at American University Author InformationLawrence S. Wittner is Professor of History at the State University of New York, Albany. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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