Freeze! : the grassroots movement to halt the arms race and end the Cold War
Henry Richard Maar
Bok · Engelsk · 2021
| Omfang | X, 287 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | Introduction : The Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign and the Influence of Public Opinion on Foreign Policy -- The Lost Years : The Peace Movement, from Vietnam to Nuclear Freeze -- Igniting a Movement: The Reagan Administration's War on Peace -- From the Streets to the Pulpit : The Catholic Challenge to the Arms Race -- With Friends Like These : The Nuclear Freeze and the Congress -- Envisioning the Day After : Fear of the Bomb in 1980's Political and Popular Culture -- The Perils of Failed Diplomacy : 1983 and the Year of Living Dangerously -- Seizing the Peace : The Nuclear Freeze Movement and the 1984 Election -- Epilogue : Bedtime for the Bomb.. - "In the late Cold War, a peace movement emerged with a specific goal: bilaterally freeze the burgeoning arms race. The Nuclear Freeze movement soon swelled across American society, pressuring the administration of Ronald Reagan to reverse the arms race or continue to face a growing backlash with potential electoral repercussions"--
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| ISBN | 9781501760884
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