"Confronting the Bomb" 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. It covers the entire period of
significant opposition to the bomb, from the final stages of the
Second World War up to the present. Along the way, it provides
fascinating glimpses of the interaction of key nuclear disarmament
activists and policymakers, including 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. Overall, however, it is a story of popular mobilization and
its effectiveness.
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