Beyond the Euromissile Crisis

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.

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Acknowledgements



Introduction: Globalising the History of Anti-Nuclear Activism

Luc-André Brunet and Eirini Karamouzi



Part I: Anti-Nuclear Politics in the Shadow of East-West Confrontation



Chapter 1. Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movements: Local and Transnational Characteristics of Peace Protest in Hiroshima

MakikoTakemoto



Chapter 2. The Dutch Interchurch Peace Council and the Anti-Nuclear Revolution of the 1970s and 1980s

Ruud van Dijk



Chapter 3. Italian Epistemic Communities in the Arms Control Field. The Case of USPID

Lodovica Clavarino



Chapter 4. The Soviet Peace Committee and ‘Détentefrom Below’ in the 1980s

Irina Gordeeva



Part II: Coopting and Adopting Anti-Nuclear Rhetoric: Three Leaders



Chapter 5. Olof Palme and the Peace Movements in Sweden in the Late Cold War Period

Thomas Jonter



Chapter 6. A Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone in the Balkans During the 1980s: A Bid for Multilateral Cooperation?

Dionysios Chourchoulis



Chapter 7. David Lange: The Anti-Nuclear Prime Minister of New Zealand 1984-1989

Exequiel Lacovsky



Part III: Nuclear Colonialism, Anti-Imperialism, and Anti-Nuclear Activism



Chapter 8. Pacifism and Anti-Nuclear Protest in Polynesia at the End of the Cold War

Alexis Vrignon



Chapter 9. Abdul Samad Minty and the World Campaign against Military and Nuclear Collaboration with South Africa

Anna-Mart van Wyk



Chapter 10. The Dark Mirror of Latin America and the Spanish anti-NATO Movements in the Late Cold War

Giulia Quaggio



Part IV: Rising Nuclear Powers



Chapter 11. Resistance and Reappropriation: Anti-Nuclear & Peace Movements in India

Kapil Patil



Chapter 12. The Opposition to the Brazilian Nuclear Programme, 1972-1988

Carlo Patti



Chapter 13. North Korea’s Anti-Nuclear Paradox, 1949-1976

Soon-Ok Shin



Afterword: Global Histories of Anti-Nuclear Activism

Luc-André Brunet, Eirini Karamouzi and Alicia Sanders-Zakre