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Our Generation Against Nuclear War

Edited by Dimitrios Roussopoulos

When the first massive disarmament movement emerged, a journal bearing the title of this book was founded in 1961 to critically examine the issue of war and peace with all its implications. During the following two decades an extraordinary collection of articles were published covering the various aspects of international power politics, the arms race, and what the significance of these factors were for our society and everyday life. This book consists of selected essays by the journal’s founding editor and contains some of the most insightful, prophetic and helpful material relevant to the current debate and anti0war movement. Many of the ideas will be familiar to today’s reader. It is to be hoped that we can learn from experience.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Background: What everybody should know

The effects of a 20 megaton bomb by the Scientists’ Committee for Radiation Information  
The history of disarmament   NICOLETTE CAREY   
What you don’t know about the arms race PEGGY DUFF
The inescapable links: interventionism and nuclear war MICHAEL T. KLARE
Economics of armament and disarmament SEYMOUR MELMAN
Spheres of Influence and Imperialism On Henry A. Kissinger DANNY DRACHE
On Reagan’s foreign policyNOAM CHOMSKY 
The driving force of imperialism today PAUL MATTICK
Stalin is dead but neo-Stalinism lives THE EDITORS   
Open letter to the 27
th parliament and the government of Canada 
An open letter on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan THE EDITORS
Vodka-Cola CHARLES LEVINSON 
Canada and the International War System Canada joins the club FARLEY MOWAT  
Nuclear arms for Canada: A strong case examined C.B MACPHERSON  
Unilateral disarmament for Canada E.G. ADAMS  
Note on the role of ‘National Defence’ in Canada THE EDITORS 
On NATO and NORAD JAMES M. MINIFIE  
Will Canada lead? F.C. HUNNIUS 
Canadian war industries and Vietnam PHILIP RESNICK  
From deterrence to intimidation: Canada, the cruise and the changing role of nuclear weapons ERNIE REGEHR Canadian nuclear energy- who needs it? FRED KNELMAN 
Unilateralism Is there a theory of unilateralism? APRIL CARTER 
Unilateral initiatives: a strategy in search of a theory IRVING LOUIS HOROWITZ    
The Meanings of unilateralism: a peace movement view ALAN SHUTTLEWORTH 
Neutralism and Non-Alignment From Bandung to Belgrade HOMER A. JACK 
Positive neutralism and the third world PETER WORSLEY
The People- a third force TONY SMYTHE  
Alignment and non-alignment  DAVID BOULTON, J.D. BERNAL, ALRED HASSLER
Non-violence Non-violent direct action APRIL CARTER  
Letter from Aldous Huxley to Anthony Brooke
Non-violent defence ADAM ROBERTS
The need for a substitute for war GENE SHARP 
Peace Research  A critical definition of peace research JOHAN GALTUNG 
A critical view of peace research, USA THOMAS HAYDEN, RICHARD FLACKS 
The Peace Movement  The peace movement and social change A.J. MUSTE
SUPA: an ethical movement in search of an analysis JAMES HARDING
From protest to radical politics PAUL BOOTH, LEE WEBB 
Student politics and world politics PHILIP G. ALTBACH, GAIL PARADISE 
Women march on the Pentagon MERRIEL FISH
Group politics, class politics and the peace movement MACLEAN WELLS   
Peace training: a beginning  THEODORE OLSON  
Peace, Politics and Philosophy Thesis for the atomic age GUNTHER ANDERS
A plea for social imagination ROBERT JUNGK  
Indifference to life ERICH FROMM
Violence on trial GABRIEL BRETON 
A psychiatrist looks at the nuclear arms race F.W. HANLEY   
What is the new radicalism? DIMITRIOS ROUSSOPOULOS 
Loyalty to humanity above all other loyalties THE EDITORS 
The politics of the peace movement  DIMITRIOS ROUSSOPOULOS 
A case study for the disarmament movement NOAM CHOMSKY
The decline of the state KATHLEEN GOUGH
Note on the future of the peace movement THE EDITORS  
On OUR GENERATION BERTRAND RUSSELL, JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

POLITICS/WORLD

476 pages

Paperback ISBN: 0-920057-04-7 $14.99
Hardcover ISBN: 0-920057-15-2 $43.99

1983

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