Confronting the Bomb - A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement

Confronting the Bomb tells the dramatic, inspiring story of how citizen activism helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war. This abbreviated version of Lawrence Wittner's award-winning trilogy, The Struggle Against the Bomb, shows how a worldwide, grassroots campaign - the largest social of modern times - challenged the nuclear priorities of the great powers and ultimately, thwarted their nuclear ambitions. Based on massive research in the files of peace and disarmament organizations and in formerly top secret government records, extensive interviews with antinuclear activists and government officials and memoirs and other published materials, Confronting the Bomb opens a unique window on one of the most important issues of the modern era: survival in the nuclear age. Along the way, it provides fascinating glimpses of the interaction of key nuclear disarmament activists and policymakers. Overall, however, it is a story of popular mobilization and its effectiveness.