Download or read book Radical Pacifism written by Scott H Bennett and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This deeply researched book is the first history of the War Resisters League, an organization that represents the major vehicle of secular radical pacifism in the United States. Besides opposing all U. S. wars and championing conscientious objection to these wars, Scott H. Bennett shows how the WRL—led by its colorful members—functioned as a “movement halfway house,” assisting and influencing a variety of social reform groups and campaigns. He devotes special attention to WWII conscientious objectors (COs) who staged dramatic wartime work and hunger strikes in Civilian Public Service camps and prisons against Jim Crow, censorship, conscription, and other policies. These radical COs moved the postwar WRL in new directions—and transformed radical pacifism. By recovering the important links between the WRL and the peace, civil rights, civil liberties, and antinuclear movements, Bennett demonstrates the social relevance and political effectiveness of radical pacifism. He emphasizes the WRL’s most important legacy: its promotion, legitimization, and Americanization of Gandhian nonviolent direct action, which infused the postwar peace and justice movements.

Download or read book This is only a Test written by D. Krugler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-03-31 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This book tells the history of nuclear age urban planning, civil defence and continuity of government programs in one of the nation's most critical Cold War targets: Washington, D.C.

Download or read book The Imaginary War written by Guy Oakes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-05 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Duck and cover" are unforgettable words for a generation of Americans, who listened throughout the Cold War to the unescapable propaganda of civil defense. Yet it would have been impossible to protect Americans from a real nuclear attack, and, as Guy Oakes shows in The Imaginary War, national security officials knew it. The real purpose of 1950's civil defense programs, Oakes contends, was not to protect Americans from the bomb, but to ingrain in them the moral resolve needed to face the hazards of the Cold War. Uncovering the links between national security, civil defense, and civic ethics, Oakes reveals three sides to the civil defense program: a system of emotional management designed to control fear; the fictional construction of a manageable world of nuclear attack; and the production of a Cold War ethic rooted in the mythology of the home, the ultimate sanctuary of American values. This fascinating analysis of the culture of civil defense and the official mythmaking of the Cold War will be essential reading for all those interested in American history, politics, and culture.

Download or read book Civil Defense for National Survival written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on with total page 2834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the Activities written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Defense Production and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bracing for Armageddon written by Dee Garrison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bracing for Armageddon, Dee Garrison pulls back the curtain on the U.S. government's civil defense plans from World War II through the end of the Cold War. Based on government documents, peace organizations, personal papers, scientific reports, oral histories, newspapers, and popular media, her book chronicles the operations of the various federal and state civil defense programs from 1945 to contemporary issues of homeland security, as well as the origins and development of the massive public protest against civil defense from 1955 through the 1980s. At a time of increasing preoccupation over national security issues, Bracing for Armageddon sheds light on the growing distrust between the U.S. government and its subjects in postwar America.

Download or read book Annual Report Federal Civil Defense Administration written by United States. Federal Civil Defense Administration and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report for of the Federal Civil Defense Administration to the President and the Congress of the United States of America written by United States. Federal Civil Defense Administration and published by . This book was released on with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reports and Documents written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on with total page 1868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 2546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hearings written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee ... and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Defense Essentiality and Foreign Economic Policy written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers AEC request for FY57 construction budget.

Download or read book Defense Essentiality and Foreign Economic Policy written by United States. Congress. Economic Joint Committee and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Defense Essentiality and Foreign Economic Policy Case Study The Watch Industry and Precision Skills written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Policy and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Armageddon Insurance written by Edward M. Geist and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dangerous, decades-long arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War begged a fundamental question: how did these superpowers actually plan to survive a nuclear strike? In Armageddon Insurance, the first historical account of Soviet civil defense and a pioneering reappraisal of its American counterpart, Edward M. Geist compares how the two superpowers tried, and mostly failed, to reinforce their societies to withstand the ultimate catastrophe. Drawing on previously unexamined documents from archives in America, Russia, and Ukraine, Geist places these civil defense programs in their political and cultural contexts, demonstrating how each country's efforts reflected its cultural preoccupations and blind spots and revealing how American and Soviet civil defense related to profound issues of nuclear strategy and national values. This work challenges prevailing historical assumptions and unearths the ways Moscow and Washington developed nuclear weapons policies based not on rational strategic or technical considerations but in power struggles between different institutions pursuing their own narrow self-interests.