Rethinking the American Antinuclear Movement

Rubinson, Paul

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“…This and similar treaties and programmes were created by the means of joint efforts of many people and organizations in a long history of antinuclear activism in the USA and other countries (Mann 1988). Even if these countervailing forces are largely invisible today, there are peace movements and organizations, academics and journalists calling for denuclearization and democratic state responsiveness to citizens (Giugni, 2004;Rubinson, 2018). Being aware of the contemporary threats of limited nuclear war, they can be revitalized and developed.…”

Section: The Contemporary Threats and The New Strategic Documentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Threat of Limited Nuclear War

Hrubec

2018

Critical Sociology

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The article addresses the contemporary risks of limited nuclear war and its threat for societies. It offers a critical analysis based on the difference between the strategy of a global destructive war following classical application of standard nuclear weapons, on the one hand, and the new political military plan of limited nuclear war, without its global continuation, on the other. First, the article explains the problems connected with the new US strategic documents pursuing limited nuclear war. Second, within this context of the risks of limited nuclear war, it explains conflicts of political (potentially democratic), corporate, and technical military interests in global capitalism which can lead to the limited nuclear war. Third, it concludes by clarifying the historical trajectory of debates concerning the strategies of possible nuclear war, and stresses the current real danger of limited nuclear war and its possible global escalation.

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Section: The Contemporary Threats and The New Strategic Documentsmentioning

confidence: 99%