The Third World War Scare in Britain

Sabin, Philip A. G.

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-08521-7

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“…Although the general fear of nuclear war was real, it was only on occasions at the forefront of most people's minds and support for unilateral disarmament was never widespread. 90 Local government's expensive anti-nuclear campaigning may thus have even contributed to its vulnerability to central government cuts and curtailments.…”

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Resist and survive: Welsh protests and the British nuclear state in the 1980s

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Johnes

2018

Contemporary British History

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This article explores Welsh protests against chief policies of the British nuclear state, especially nuclear deterrence, civil defence and its close relationship with the United States. It contributes to the social, cultural and political histories of the postwar British nuclear state by further demonstrating the plural character of protests across and within the British nations. It shows that, while local authorities, individuals and extraparliamentary groups certainly dreaded the prospect of nuclear war, the nuclear weapons issue often presented them with a vehicle to protest against British government policy more broadly.

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Resist and survive: Welsh protests and the British nuclear state in the 1980s

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Johnes

2018

Contemporary British History

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“…In Congress, Senators Joe McCarthy and Richard Nixon (the latter was to become president) sought 'reds under the bed', believing that the government, educators, union activists and the entertainment industry were hotbeds of communists determined to overthrow the Constitution and usher in Russian hegemony. The threat of a Third World War was openly discussed in the press, and Europe was thought to be about to topple into the Soviet camp (Sabin, 1986). Americans represented themselves to themselves as living in the last bastion of freedom and democracy, in contrast with totalitarian regimes that were believed to be spreading out from the Soviet Union (Guilbaut, 1999).…”

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Instrumentality and influence of Fayol’s doctrine: history, politics and emotions in two post-war settings

2020

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Why does Administration Industrielle et Générale have a major status in the history of management thought? We argue that the rational reason for the enthusiasm for Fayol's theory disguises the irrational and unconscious fears in societies for which the cool rationality of Fayol's work offered a soothing balm. We discuss this in two different but relatively similar post-war settings-France in the 1920s, which saw the first major upsurge of interest in Fayol's work, and the mid-twentieth century USA, where his work was rediscovered and attained canonical status. The reception to his work in the aftermaths of the two world wars prove particularly important in understanding how historico/politico/emotional affect influences the reception to a body of work. We suggest it is not the ideas themselves that were of prime importance, but how those ideas resonated with the historical, political and emotional context in which they were debated and taken up.

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“…Mushroom cloud imagery from the continuing atmospheric tests dominated media portrayals during the early Cold War, and television films like The War Game (1965) and Threads (1984) documented in chilling detail how nuclear attack could affect British provincial cities. 15 If there is any single film which encapsulates British popular perceptions of air power in the mid twentieth century, it is surely Harry Saltzman's 1969 production Battle of Britain, which has been shown repeatedly ever since on UK television. This film does give a basic portrayal of the strategy and tactics of the battle, but it comes alive in its depiction of human trauma, be it the ambush of hapless novice pilots, the terrible consequences of burns injuries, the strain of repeated deadly sorties or the sudden randomness of bombing casualties, whether on RAF airfields or in Blitzed London, with age or gender being no protection.…”

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confidence: 99%