The nuclear disarmament movement of the late '50s and early '60s
was one of the largest and arguably one of the most significant,
extra-parliamentary movements ever seen in modern Britain. A whole
new style and conception of politics was born through this first
anti-nuclear movement, and the subsequent radicalism of the '60s
and '70s has its roots here. The movement was extraordinarily
diverse and rich in its constituencies of support and complex in
its ideological make-up. Thus anarchists, communists, and
Trotskyists rubbed shoulders with Christians, liberals, members of
the Labour party, and 'ordinary apolitical people', most of whom
found in the movement a means by which they could articulate their
growing fear and anxiety about the seemingly inexorable arms race,
and the horror of nuclear war. Dr Taylor analyses the perceptions
of these groups in detail and explains how and why they differed.
This is the first comprehensive study of the movement to make use
of a wide range of contemporary material, and the first to present
in detail the previously unrecorded views and analyses of more than
twenty of the leading figures of the movement some twenty-five
years on. Although he provides a wealth of historical detail, Dr
Taylor's approach is primarily political and analytical, and his
examination of this first mass movement of its kind will be
relevant to all those concerned about nuclear proliferation, as
well as to courses in politics, sociology, modern history and peace
studies.
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