Luc-André Brunet is a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary International History at The Open University and Co-Director of the Peace and Security Project at LSE IDEAS. The Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded project, ‘Global Histories of Peace and Anti-Nuclear Activism,’ he is also a co-editor of the McGill-Queen’s University Press book series on Global Nuclear Histories. His recent publications include NATO and the Strategic Defence Initiative: A Transatlantic History of the Star Wars Programme (Routledge, 2022), and a forthcoming book on Canada, the global nuclear order, and the end of the Cold War.

• List of ImagesAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Globalising the History of Anti-Nuclear ActivismLuc-André Brunet and Eirini KaramouziPart I: Anti-Nuclear Politics in the Shadow of East-West ConfrontationChapter 1. Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movements: Local and Transnational Characteristics of Peace Protest in HiroshimaMakikoTakemotoChapter 2. The Dutch Interchurch Peace Council and the Anti-Nuclear Revolution of the 1970s and 1980sRuud van DijkChapter 3. Italian Epistemic Communities in the Arms Control Field. The Case of USPIDLodovica ClavarinoChapter 4. The Soviet Peace Committee and ‘Détentefrom Below’ in the 1980sIrina GordeevaPart II: Coopting and Adopting Anti-Nuclear Rhetoric: Three LeadersChapter 5. Olof Palme and the Peace Movements in Sweden in the Late Cold War PeriodThomas JonterChapter 6. A Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone in the Balkans During the 1980s: A Bid for Multilateral Cooperation?Dionysios ChourchoulisChapter 7. David Lange: The Anti-Nuclear Prime Minister of New Zealand 1984-1989Exequiel LacovskyPart III: Nuclear Colonialism, Anti-Imperialism, and Anti-Nuclear ActivismChapter 8. Pacifism and Anti-Nuclear Protest in Polynesia at the End of the Cold WarAlexis VrignonChapter 9. Abdul Samad Minty and the World Campaign against Military and Nuclear Collaboration with South AfricaAnna-Mart van WykChapter 10. The Dark Mirror of Latin America and the Spanish anti-NATO Movements in the Late Cold WarGiulia QuaggioPart IV: Rising Nuclear PowersChapter 11. Resistance and Reappropriation: Anti-Nuclear & Peace Movements in IndiaKapil PatilChapter 12. The Opposition to the Brazilian Nuclear Programme, 1972-1988Carlo PattiChapter 13. North Korea’s Anti-Nuclear Paradox, 1949-1976Soon-Ok ShinEpilogue: Global Histories of Anti-Nuclear ActivismLuc-André Brunet, Eirini Karamouzi and Alicia Sanders-ZakreFilmography