ANTI-NUCLEAR MOVEMENTS
Panel from Toshi Maruki's Hiroshima mural series.
Anti-nuclear weapons/disarmament movements and anti-nuclear power movements are sometimes linked, sometime separate worldwide movements arising with the beginning of the atomic era at the end of World War II. Key phases included the Bomb the Ban movements (of the 50s and 60s), the Anti-Nuclear Direct Action movement (peaking in the 70's and 80s), the Nuclear Freeze movement of early 1980s, and a host of current groups opposing the continuing proliferation of nuclear weapons into more and more countries, and the potential of them falling into the hands of terrorists.
Key Sites
- A-Bomb WWW Museum.
- A Nuclear Notebook. On the culture of nuclear weapons, esp. in UK).
- Abalone Alliance. One of the key anti-nuclear power movement actions.
- Anti-nuclear websites. A very comprehensive list.
- Arms Control Association. Important group of arms control experts and their policy efforts.
- The Atom Project
- Carey Sublette's Nuclear Weapons FAQs.
- Chernobyl No More.
- Chernobyl: Ten Years After.
- Chronology of International Opposition to French Nuclear Testing.
- Clamshell Alliance. The group that set the model for the modern anti-nuclear power movement.
- Dr. Meshkati's Chernobyl.
- Enola Gay. About the plane that dropped bombs on Japan.
- Environmental Effects of French Nuclear Testing.
- Greenpeace's International Campaign against Nuclear Testing.
- Hiroshima: Nagasaki Anniversary.
- Hiroshima Peace Site.
- Leo Szilard Home Page. One of the architects of the bomb.
- Livermore Action Group. History of the movement protesting the UC Berkeley weapons lab.
- Nuclear Culture. Excellent resource site on art & nuclear life.
- Nuclear Freeze Campaign.
- Nuclear Reactors in the U.S. (NRC).
- NucNet: The World's Nuclear News Agency.
- Nuke News: An Update on French Nuclear Testing.
- Plutonium on the Internet.
- The Swedish Anti-Nuclear Movement.
- Trinity Atomic Web Site.
- US Nuclear Accidents.
- Union of Concerned Scientists. Group that has for decades worked for safer nuclear power, nuclear disarmament, an end to proliferation and better nuclear weapons policies. among other issues..
- Voice of Hibakusha.
- Ex-USSR Nuclear Technologies and the World.
- Home Page Nagasaki's Protest against Nuclear Testing.
Bibliography
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- Boyer, Paul. (1985). By the Bomb's Early Light: American Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age, Unviersity of North Carolina Press.
- Clarfield, Gerald H. and William M. Wiecek (1984). Nuclear America: Military and Civilian Nuclear Power in the United States 1940-1980, Harper & Row.
- Cooke, Stephanie (2009). In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age, Black Inc.
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- Coupland, Douglas and Julia Bryan-Wilson (text) John O-Brian (image editor) (2015). Camera Atomica. Black Dog.
- Elliott, David (2007). Nuclear or Not? Does Nuclear Power Have a Place in a Sustainable Energy Future, Palgrave.
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- Surbrug, Robert (2009). Beyond Vietnam: The Politics of Protest in Massachusetts, 1974-1990, University of Massachusetts Press.
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- Walker, J. Samuel (2004). Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective, University of California Press.
- Wellock, Thomas R. (1998). Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958-1978, The University of Wisconsin Press.
- Wills, John (2006). Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon, University of Nevada Press.
- Wittner, Lawrence S. (2009). Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, Stanford University Press.
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- Zeman, Scott C. and Michael A. Amundson’s (Eds.) Atomic Culture: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2004).