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Becker-Schaum, Christoph; Gassert, Philipp; Klimke, Martin; Mausbach, Wilfried; Zepp, Marianne

doi:10.2307/j.ctvswx70b.6

The Nuclear Crisis 2016

DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvswx70b.6

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Christoph Becker-Schaum¹,

Philipp Gassert²,

Martin Klimke³

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“…along transnational lines, seeking to build cross-bloc coalitions. 2 One such group was WFLOE, who this article argues, played an important role in building relationships between people from the UK and Soviet Union and applied pressure on the Soviet government to disarm both directly and by supporting the unofficial Eastern disarmament groups. Furthermore, I show how they attempted to increase support for their movement by improving the popular image of anti-nuclear protesters, especially women.…”

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From Greenham common to red square: women for life on earth and cross-bloc activism in the 1980s

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Contemporary British History

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This article examines how the activist group Women for Life on Earth (WFLOE) attempted to persuade the USSR to ditch their nuclear weapons. The article finds that WFLOE began a womenled campaign and engaged with unofficial activists and ordinary people in the USSR to lobby the Soviet government to disarm. WFLOE's fame as 'Greenham Women' helped them to publicise their overseas activism and they attempted to challenge predominant representations of peace campaigners in the UK by campaigning against Soviet nuclear weapons. However, this success was limited with the Cold War maintaining primacy for the British press and WFLOE only gaining positive coverage when they caused embarrassment to the Soviets.

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From Greenham common to red square: women for life on earth and cross-bloc activism in the 1980s

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The politics of the unknown: Uncertainty and the nuclear threat in Britain, 1979–1985

Laucht

2018

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This article seeks to map out possibilities for conducting a microhistorical study of the socio‐political and cultural roles that uncertainty, as a consequence of a lack of verifiable knowledge, played in political debates over the nuclear threat in Britain in the Second Cold War. Focusing on this politics of the unknown in the period from 1979 to 1985 when Britain witnessed resurging fears of nuclear war, this exploratory essay sets out to make three main interventions: First, it conceptualizes “uncertainty” as a subjective social and cultural construct with fluid meanings that does not necessarily have to hold exclusively negative connotations but might offer opportunities for historical actors. Second, this essay proposes an examination of the politics of the unknown about the anticipated effects of a nuclear war within a wider synchronic economy of non‐nuclear‐weapons‐related concerns such as de‐industrialization or unemployment. Finally, the article introduces the periodization of “Britain's long nuclear 1980s” to allow for a consideration of relevant diachronic aspects of this politics of the unknown, thereby adding further depth to the microhistory. Throughout, this exploratory study draws on historical examples to illustrate its key theoretical points.

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