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The Politics of Security: British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons and the Early Cold War

  • Asia Review
  • Abbr : SNUACAR
  • 2016, 5(2), pp.307~324
  • Publisher : 아시아연구소
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general

Holger Nehring 1

1University of Stirling

Candidate

ABSTRACT

This essay tackles the question of what international politics in generaland the Cold War in particular meant to people in Britain and West Germany. The period of discussion is from the end of the Second World War intothe late 1960s and from the beginnings of the nuclear arms race to the firstsigns of détente between the two superpowers. It highlights how protestsagainst nuclear weapons were deeply embedded in the political cultures ofthe Cold War and how the cultures were produced. The key to understanding this oppositional politics of security consist ofthe specific memories of the Second World War: the memories of the bombingover Europe provide a template for understanding the Cold War as aconstant pre-war situation.

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