Nuclear Threats, Nuclear Fear and the Cold War of the 1980s

Eckart Conze is Professor of History at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany. He is the author of Die Suche nach Sicherheit: Eine Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (2009) and Das Auswärtige Amt: Vom Kaiserreich bis zur Gegenwart (2012). Martin Klimke is Associate Dean of Humanities and Associate Professor of History at New York University, Abu Dhabi. He is the author of The Other Alliance: Student Protest in West Germany and the United States in the Global Sixties (2009), co-author of A Breath of Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, African-American GIs, and Germany (with Maria Höhn, 2010), as well as editor of the publication series Protest, Culture and Society. Jeremy Varon is Professor of History at the New School for Social Research, New York. He is author of Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies (2004) and The New Life: Jewish Students of Postwar Germany (2014). He is also the co-founder and editor of The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture.

'Brilliantly framed with deeply researched and consistently insightful essays ranging from popular culture and media, and activist efforts to create nuclear free zones to how nuclear anxiety changes domestic and foreign policy in the United States and Europe, Nuclear Threats, Nuclear Fear and the Cold War of the 1980s is indispensable reading for anyone seeking to understand the 1980s. The volume will shape the field for years to come.' Penny M. von Eschen, Cornell University, New York

• 1. Nuclear winter prophecies of doom and images of desolation during the Second Cold War Wilfried Mausbach; 2. Atomic nightmares and biological citizens at Three Mile Island Natasha Zaretsky; 3. Missile bases as concentration camps: the role of National Socialism, the Second World War, and the Holocaust in the West German discourse on nuclear armament Eckart Conze; 4. Will you sing about the missiles? British antinuclear protest music of the 1980s William M. Knoblauch; 5. From artists for peace to the Green Caterpillar: cultural activism and electoral politics in 1980s West Germany Martin Klimke and Laura Stapane; 6. A tenuous peace: international antinuclear activism in the East German Writers Union during the 1980s Thomas Goldstein; 7. The 'example of Wyhl': how grassroots protest in the Rhine Valley shaped West Germany's antinuclear movement Stephen Milder; 8. No nukes and front porch politics: environmental protest culture and practice on the second Cold War home front Michael Stewart Foley; 9. Global micropolitics: toward a transnational history of grassroots nuclear-free zones Susanne Schregel; 10. European nuclear disarmament: transnational peace campaigning in the 1980s Patrick Burke; 11. A case of 'Hollanditis': the interchurch peace council and the Christian peace movement in Western Europe Sebastian Kalden; 12. Peace through strength? The impact of the antinuclear uprising on the Carter and Reagan administrations Lawrence S. Wittner; 13. Did protest matter? The influence of the peace movement on the West German government and the Social Democratic Party, 1977–83 Tim Geiger and Jan Hansen; 14. Why was there no 'accidental armageddon' discourse in France? How defense intellectuals, peace movements, and public opinion rethought the Cold War during the Euromissile crisis Katrin Rücker; 15. Building trust: the G7 summits and international leadership in nuclear politics Enrico Böhm.