The global effects of nuclear winter: science and antinuclear protest in the United States and the Soviet Union during the 1980s

Rubinson, Paul

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“…The entanglement of science and politics in the debates around nuclear winter, accurately described by Matthias Dörries (2011) and Paul Rubinson (2014), sheds light on the process that reconfigured the nuclear order of time. Both the metaphor of a nuclear winter and the ensuing public debate were key in overcoming the modern (and artificial) divide between society and nature.…”

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“…Sagan, an expert on planetary research with a famous TV series, Cosmos, used this scenario to advocate for nuclear disarmament. The debate among scientists became inextricably political; both in the United States and the Soviet Union, the nuclear winter hypothesis was taken up by advocates of the ban on nuclear weapons (Dörries, 2011;Rubinson, 2014). In America, the controversy would focus narrowly on the scientific validity of the hypothesis.…”

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Living in a Nuclear World

Bensaude‐Vincent¹,

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Satō³

2022

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List of figures viii Acknowledgments x Introduction: shaping the nuclear order 1 BERNADETTE BENSAUDE-VINCENT, SORAYA BOUDIA AND KYOKO SATO SECTION I Violence and order 21 1 What the bomb has done: victim relief, knowledge and politics 23 KYOKO SATO 2 Optics of exposure 45 JOSEPH MASCO 3 Constructing world order: mobilising tropes of gender, pathology and race to frame US nonproliferation policy 66 JOHN KRIGE 4 The Nuclear Charter: international law, military technology, and the making of strategic trusteeship, 1942-1947 85 M. X. MITCHELL SECTION II Pacifying through control and containment 5 Sharing the "safe" atom?: the International Atomic Energy Agency and nuclear regulation through standardisation ANGELA N. H. CREAGER AND MARIA RENTETZI 6 From military surveillance to citizen counterexpertise: radioactivity monitoring in a nuclear world NESTOR HERRAN 7 Making the accident hypothetical: how can one deal with the potential nuclear disaster? MAËL GOUMRI 8 Governing the nuclear waste problem: nature and technology TANIA NAVARRO RODRÍGUEZ SECTION III Normalising through denial and trivialisation 9 Trivialising life in long-term contaminated areas: the nuclear political laboratory SORAYA BOUDIA 10 Continuing nuclear tests and ending fish inspections: politics, science and the Lucky Dragon Incident in 1954 HIROKO TAKAHASHI 11 The dystopic Pieta: Chernobyl survivors and neoliberalism's lasting judgments KATE BROWN 12 Unfolding time at Fukushima HARRY BERNAS vi Contents SECTION IV Timescaping through memory and future visions 13 Framing a nuclear order of time BERNADETTE BENSAUDE-VINCENT 14 Nuclear dreams and capitalist visions: the peaceful atom in Hiroshima RAN ZWIGENBERG 15 Slow disaster and the challenge of nuclear memory

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Living in a Nuclear World

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Satō³

2022

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“…Besides its conceptual merit, there is a great epistemological value in examining the British reception of nuclear winter. Since this theory emerged from a group of American astrophysicists and atmospheric scientists around Carl Sagan and was later refined with input from Soviet scientists, historians have so far analysed it, by and large, within the context of the two superpowers, especially the United States (Badash, 2009, p. 141;Rubinson, 2014;Mausbach, 2017;Knoblauch, 2017a, pp. 34-59 observation that multiple and often contradictory "trajectories" were characteristic of 1980s Britain (Brooke, 2014, p. 22).…”

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“…While there has been a fair number of publications on the period of the so-called Second Cold War and the final phase of the Cold War generally (e.g.,Conze, Klimke, & Varon, 2017;Njølstad, 2004;Nuti et al, 2015), this historiography has often marginalized Britain, focusing instead on the two superpowers, especially the United States(Rossinow, 2015;Knoblauch, 2017a;Martin, 2011;Rubinson, 2014; Shaw, 2007, pp. 267-300; Shaw & Youngblood, 2010, pp.…”

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The politics of the unknown: Uncertainty and the nuclear threat in Britain, 1979–1985

Laucht

2018

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This article seeks to map out possibilities for conducting a microhistorical study of the socio‐political and cultural roles that uncertainty, as a consequence of a lack of verifiable knowledge, played in political debates over the nuclear threat in Britain in the Second Cold War. Focusing on this politics of the unknown in the period from 1979 to 1985 when Britain witnessed resurging fears of nuclear war, this exploratory essay sets out to make three main interventions: First, it conceptualizes “uncertainty” as a subjective social and cultural construct with fluid meanings that does not necessarily have to hold exclusively negative connotations but might offer opportunities for historical actors. Second, this essay proposes an examination of the politics of the unknown about the anticipated effects of a nuclear war within a wider synchronic economy of non‐nuclear‐weapons‐related concerns such as de‐industrialization or unemployment. Finally, the article introduces the periodization of “Britain's long nuclear 1980s” to allow for a consideration of relevant diachronic aspects of this politics of the unknown, thereby adding further depth to the microhistory. Throughout, this exploratory study draws on historical examples to illustrate its key theoretical points.

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The Anti-Nuclear Weapons Movement

Bjørnsson

2024

The Palgrave Handbook of Non-State Actors in East-West Relations

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The global effects of nuclear winter: science and antinuclear protest in the United States and the Soviet Union during the 1980s

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