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The promise of internationalism. US anti-nuclear activism and the European challenge
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Harvey, K, The promise of internationalism. US anti-nuclear activism and the European challenge, Making sense of the Americas: how to protect America In the 1980s and beyond, Campus Verlag, J Hansen, C Helm, and F Reichherzer (ed), Franfurt, pp. 225-243. ISBN 9783593504803 (2015) [Research Book Chapter]
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Abstract
In the early 1980s, buoyed by the growing popularity of anti-nuclear sentiment
at home, and motivated by massive demonstrations in Western
Europe, anti-nuclear organizers in the United States were suitably
optimistic. Many realized the impact a mass movement against nuclear
weapons in the United States could have, both domestically and internationally,
and strove to develop strategies to maximize the size and scope of
this movement. The prospect of collaboration with activists in Western
Europe seemed an ideal means to forge an international alliance opposed
to both superpowers’ nuclear arsenals and the deployment of weapons that
threatened the safety — indeed the survival — of the world. This spirit of
internationalism, however, struggled to find an application in a movement
so focused on domestic strategies, at the local, state, and national levels.
Item Details
Item Type: | Research Book Chapter |
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Keywords: | history, nuclear weapons, protest, trans-Atlantic, internationalism |
Research Division: | History, Heritage and Archaeology |
Research Group: | Historical studies |
Research Field: | North American history |
Objective Division: | Culture and Society |
Objective Group: | Understanding past societies |
Objective Field: | Understanding the past of the Americas |
UTAS Author: | Harvey, K (Dr Kyle Harvey) |
ID Code: | 127434 |
Year Published: | 2015 |
Deposited By: | College Office - CALE |
Deposited On: | 2018-07-27 |
Last Modified: | 2018-08-09 |
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