TY - BOOK AU - Becker-Schaum,Christoph AU - Gassert,Philipp AU - Klimke,Martin AU - Mausbach,Wilfried AU - Zepp,Marianne TI - The nuclear crisis: the arms race, Cold War anxiety, and the German peace movement of the 1980s T2 - Protest, culture and society SN - 9781785332685 AV - JZ5584 .N835 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Berghahn Books KW - North Atlantic Treaty Organization KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Peace movements KW - Germany KW - Antinuclear movement KW - Protest movements KW - Cold War KW - Social aspects KW - Nuclear weapons KW - Europe KW - Nuclear disarmament KW - Arms race KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Introduction. The Nuclear Crisis, NATO's double-track decision, and the peace movement of the 1980s; Christoph Becker-Schuam, Philipp Gassert, Martin Klimke, Wilfried Mausbach, and Marianne Zepp --; From Helsinki to Afghanistan: the CSCE process and the beginning of the Second Cold War; Anja Hanisch --; The NATO double-track decision: genesis and implementation; Tim Geiger --; SS-20 and Pershing II: weapon systems and the dynamization of East-West relations; Oliver Bange --; NATO's double-track decision and East-West German relations; Hermann Wentker --; Political parties; Jan Hansen --; Eco-pacificsm: the environmental movement as a source for the peace movement; Silke Mende and Birgit Metzger --; Rationality of fear: the intellectual foundations of the peace movement; Marianne Zepp --; The institutional organization of the peace movement; Christoph Becker-Schaum --; The spaces and places of the peace movement; Susanne Schregel --; The protagonists of the peace movement; Saskia Richter --; The independent peace movement in East Germany; Rainer Eckert --; Visual and media strategies of the peace movement; Kathrin Fahlenbrach and Laura Stapane --; The churches; Sebsastian Kalden and Jan Ole Wiechmann --; Trade unions; Dietmar Süss --; The police; Michael Sturm --; "Men build missiles": the women's peace movement; Reinhild Kreis --; Nuclear attack and civil defense: preparing for the worst-case scenario in politics and science; Claudia Kemper --; Nuclear doomsday scenarios in film, literature, and music; Philipp Baur --; A triumph of disarmament? The 1980s and the international political system; Florian Pressler; 2; b N2 - "In 1983, more than one million Germans joined together to protest NATO's deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe. International media overflowed with images of marches, rallies, and human chains as protesters blockaded depots and agitated for disarmament. Though they failed to halt the deployment, the episode was a decisive one for German society, revealing deep divisions in the nation's political culture while continuing to mobilize activists. This volume provides a comprehensive survey of the 'Euromissiles' crisis as experienced by its various protagonists, analyzing NATO's diplomatic and military maneuvering and tracing the political, cultural, and moral discourses that surrounded the missiles' deployment in East and West Germany"--Publisher's website UR - httpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1164865&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -