Book Details

Title:

One World or None: a history of the world nuclear disarmament movement through 1953


Author:Wittner, Lawrence Stephen
Place:Stanford, Calif.
Publisher:Stanford University Press
Year:1993

Reference:

Wittner, Lawrence Stephen. One World or None: a history of the world nuclear disarmament movement through 1953 . Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 1993.


Categories:

History and Social Sciences

Languages:

English

Description:

Stanford Nuclear Age Series, No. 1. A comprehensive history of the global movement against nuclear weapons from 1913 through 1953. Chapter 3, From the Ashes, describes the surge of activities against A- and H-bombs in Japan, promoted by atomic scientists, pacifists, world government advocates, and hibakusha (Japanese survivors of the atomic bomb).