Freeze! : the grassroots movement to halt the arms race and end the Cold War / Henry Richard Maar III.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maar, Henry Richard, III, author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reagan, Ronald.

Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign.

Antinuclear movement--United States--History--20th century.

Antinuclear movement.

Nuclear arms control--United States--History--20th century.

Nuclear arms control.

Nuclear weapons--Government policy--United States.

Nuclear weapons.

Cold War.

United States--Foreign relations--1981-1989.

United States.

United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.

Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Amid an escalating Cold War that pitted the nuclear arsenal of the United States against that of the Soviet Union, the grassroots peace movement emerged sweeping the nation and uniting people around the world. The solution for the arms race that the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign proposed - a bilateral freeze on the building, testing, and deployment of nuclear weapons on the part of two superpowers of the US and the USSR. That simple but powerful proposition stirred popular sentiment and provoked protest in the streets and on screen from New York City to London to Berlin. The Freeze movement played an instrumental role in shaping public opinion and American politics, helping establish the conditions that would bring the Cold War to an end.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 3, 2022).

ISBN:

1-5017-6090-4

OCLC:

1245252326