Protest and Survive (A Collection of Essays on the Threat of Nuclear War in Europe)

Cruise Missiles; Nuclear War in Europe; Civil Defence; Soviet Armaments; US Military Plans; War, Militarism and the Soviet State; Britain's Tuppennyworth. BLURB: "HAVE CRUISE MISSILES INCREASED THE CHANCES OF NUCLEAR WAR? Nukes are nasty and governments are anxious to ensure that nuclear wars are ‘limited’ to a ‘theatre’. Cruise missiles deployed in the UK are seen by the British government as preserving our ancient independence in the face of the ‘monstrous’ Russian threat. In this book E. P. Thompson and his colleagues challenge the grounds of this assumption and show that use of the owner-controlled missiles by the US in a ‘limited’ war will mean the complete destruction of the ‘theatre’, of Western Europe and of Great Britain in particular. ..." See also LAURIE, Peter: "Beneath the City Streets" (1979) ISBN 0 586 05055 8. (1) E.P. Thompson: "Protest and Survive"; (2) Henry T. Nash: "The Bureaucratization of Homicide"; (3) Alva Myrdal: "The Superpowers’ Game over Europe"; (4) Dan Smith: "The European Nuclear Theatre"; (5) David Holloway: "War, Militarism and the Soviet State"; (6) Emma Rothschild: "The American Arms Boom"; (7) Dan Smith and Ron Smith: "British Military Expenditure in the 1980s"; (8) Mary Kaldor: "Disarmament: The Armament Process in Reverse"; (9) ANON: "Appeal for European Nuclear Disarmament"; (10) Ken Coates: "For a Nuclear-free Europe"; (11) Bruce Kent: "Notes from the Concrete Grass Roots". Helps us to better understand the dangers of U.S. nuclear strategy, and reminds us that it is a strategy we can resist.