Confronting the Bomb A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement

Lawrence S. Wittner is Professor of History at the State University of New York, Albany, and former President of the Peace History Society. He is the author of the trilogy, published by Stanford University Press, The Struggle Against the Bomb: One World or None (1993), Resisting the Bomb (1997), and Toward Nuclear Abolition (2003).

About the author

Lawrence S. Wittner is Professor of History at the State University of New York, Albany, and former President of the Peace History Society. He is the author of the trilogy, published by Stanford University Press, The Struggle Against the Bomb: One World or None (1993), Resisting the Bomb (1997), and Toward Nuclear Abolition (2003).

Summary

Confronting the Bomb tells the dramatic, inspiring story of how citizen activism helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war.

Additional text

"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

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence S. Wittner, Lawrence S Wittner
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 12.05.2009
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9780804756327
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5632-7
• Pages: 272
• Series: Stanford Nuclear Age Series; Stanford Nuclear Age (Paperbac; Stanford Nuclear Age Series; Stanford Nuclear Age (Paperbac; Stanford Nuclear Age
• Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Arms Control; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century; History - General History