Nuclear Crisis

Christoph Becker-Schaum is the Director of the Green Memory Archive at the Heinrich Boell Foundation in Berlin.Philipp Gassert is a Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Mannheim and a past deputy director of the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC. His publications include America's Wars (co-written with Alexander Emmerich, 2015).Martin Klimke is Associate Dean of Humanities and Associate Professor of History at New York University Abu Dhabi. He is the author of The Other Alliance: Global Protest and Student Unrest in West Germany and the US, 1962-1972 (2010) and co-author of A Breath of Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, African-American GIs, and Germany (2010).Wilfried Mausbach is the Executive Director of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) at Heidelberg University. He is the coeditor of The American Presidency: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (2012) and of Changing the World, Changing Oneself: Political Protest and Collective Identities in West Germany and the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s (2010).Marianne Zepp is Program Director for Contemporary History at the Heinrich Boell Foundation in Berlin.

• Introduction: The Nuclear Crisis, NATO's Double-Track Decision, and the Peace Movement of the 1980s: An Introduction Christoph Becker-Schaum, Philipp Gassert, Martin Klimke, Wilfried Mausbach, and Marianne ZeppChapter 1. From Helsinki to Afghanistan: The CSCE Process and the Beginning of the Second Cold WarAnja HanischChapter 2. The NATO Double-Track Decision: Genesis and Implementation Tim GeigerChapter 3. SS-20 and Pershing II: Weapon Systems and the Dynamization of East-West Relations Oliver BangeChapter 4. NATO's Double-Track Decision and East-West German RelationsHermann WentkerChapter 5.Political PartiesJan HansenChapter 6. Eco-Pacifism: The Environmental Movement as a Source for the Peace Movement Silke Mende and Birgit MetzgerChapter 7. Rationality of Fear: The Intellectual Foundations of the Peace Movement Marianne ZeppChapter 8. The Institutional Organization of the Peace MovementChristoph Becker-SchaumChapter 9. The Spaces and Places of the Peace Movement Susanne SchregelChapter 10. The Protagonists of the Peace Movement Saskia RichterChapter 11. The Independent Peace Movement in East Germany Rainer EckertChapter 12. Visual and Media Strategies of the Peace MovementKathrin Fahlenbrach and Laura StapaneChapter 13. The ChurchesSebastian Kalden and Jan Ole WiechmannChapter 14. Trade UnionsDietmar SussChapter 15. The PoliceMichael SturmChapter 16. "Men Build Rockets": The Women's Peace MovementReinhild KreisChapter 17. Civil Defense: Preparing for the Worst-Case Scenario in Politics and Science Claudia KemperChapter 18. Nuclear Doomsday Scenarios in Film, Literature, and Music Philipp BaurChapter 19. A Triumph of Disarmament? The 1980s and the International Political System Florian PresslerBibliographyIndex

"This is an important volume on a key phase of the Cold War, one that will be of interest to scholars, but can also be assigned to undergraduate and graduate students. The various chapters build on each other beautifully, forming a coherent whole. Aside from a couple of rough spots, they are beautifully written, though they originally appeared in German. A list of abbreviations and annotated bibliographies at the end of each chapter make this volume highly reader-friendly." German History