Nuclear Crisis

Christoph Becker-Schaum is the Director of the Green Memory Archive at the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin.

“Overall, this work provides an outstanding multidimensional framework of the nuclear crisis and its resulting peace movement. The chapters adequately detail the crisis, the political environment that led to the Double-Track Decision, and the progression of the peace movement throughout Germany and on an international level. I recommend this volume to anyone seeking information on German politics during the Cold War and to researchers or academics with an interest in social movements and their effects on society, morality, and politics.” • H-Net Reviews“[This volume consists] of nineteen erudite and informative contributions by an extraordinary series of contributors -- making it an unreservedly recommended publication for college and university library Nuclear Weapons & Warfare History, War & Peace, and Political Advocacy collections.” • Midwest Book Review“This volume is a well-conceived collection of different approaches to the events of the “Nuclear Crisis” and the reactions of a large, broad and heterogeneous peace movement. It is especially through its multidimensional description also well suited as an introduction to this topic. With the help of this volume is seems possible to ‘learn from history,’ because who considers the arguments and discussion threads of the debates will recognize much in the contemporary themes of the peace movement.” • Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen“This is an important volume on a key phase of the Cold War, one that will be of interest to scholars, but can also be assigned to undergraduate and graduate students. The various chapters build on each other beautifully, forming a coherent whole. Aside from a couple of rough spots, they are beautifully written, though they originally appeared in German. A list of abbreviations and annotated bibliographies at the end of each chapter make this volume highly reader-friendly.” • German History“The breadth and balance of this collection make it an excellent introduction to the strategic challenges and nuclear anxieties of the Second Cold War. In giving such detailed coverage of the 1980s, it represents a kind of milestone in the historicization of peace movements.” • William Glenn Gray, Purdue University“With great conceptual clarity, the contributions to this volume offer innovative perspectives on the connections between international and domestic politics, the renegotiation of ‘peace’ in the political arena, and questions of collective agency. One of its great strengths is its multi-dimensional approach, integrating traditional methods of studying policy and diplomacy with an astute and precise analysis of media, protest actions, grass-roots activism, and the gendering of peace and protest.” • Benjamin Ziemann, University of Sheffield

• Introduction: The Nuclear Crisis, NATO’s Double-Track Decision, and the Peace Movement of the 1980s: An Introduction
Christoph Becker-Schaum, Philipp Gassert, Martin Klimke, Wilfried Mausbach, and Marianne ZeppChapter 1. From Helsinki to Afghanistan:

 The CSCE Process and the Beginning of the Second Cold WarAnja HanischChapter 2. The NATO Double-Track Decision: Genesis and Implementation
Tim GeigerChapter 3. SS-20 and Pershing II: Weapon Systems and the Dynamization of East-West Relations
Oliver BangeChapter 4. NATO’s Double-Track Decision and East-West German RelationsHermann WentkerChapter 5.Political PartiesJan HansenChapter 6. Eco-Pacifism: The Environmental Movement as a Source for the Peace Movement
Silke Mende and Birgit MetzgerChapter 7. Rationality of Fear: The Intellectual Foundations of the Peace Movement
Marianne ZeppChapter 8. The Institutional Organization of the Peace MovementChristoph Becker-SchaumChapter 9. The Spaces and Places of the Peace Movement
Susanne SchregelChapter 10. The Protagonists of the Peace Movement
Saskia RichterChapter 11. The Independent Peace Movement in East Germany
Rainer EckertChapter 12. Visual and Media Strategies of the Peace MovementKathrin Fahlenbrach and Laura StapaneChapter 13. The ChurchesSebastian Kalden and Jan Ole WiechmannChapter 14. Trade UnionsDietmar SüßChapter 15. The PoliceMichael SturmChapter 16. “Men Build Rockets”: The Women's Peace MovementReinhild KreisChapter 17. Civil Defense: Preparing for the Worst-Case Scenario in Politics and Science
Claudia KemperChapter 18. Nuclear Doomsday Scenarios in Film, Literature, and Music
Philipp BaurChapter 19. A Triumph of Disarmament? The 1980s and the International Political System
Florian PresslerBibliographyIndex