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Cold war Christians and the spectre of nuclear deterrence, 1945-1959 /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Cold war Christians and the spectre of nuclear deterrence, 1945-1959 // Jonathan Gorry.
Author:	Gorry, Jonathan,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	Antinuclear movement - History. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137334244
ISBN:	113733424X (electronic bk.)

Cold war Christians and the spectre of nuclear deterrence, 1945-1959 /
Gorry, Jonathan,

Cold war Christians and the spectre of nuclear deterrence, 1945-1959 /Jonathan Gorry. - 1 online resource. - Histories of the sacred and secular, 1700-2000. - Histories of the sacred and secular, 1700-2000..

Includes bibliographical references.

PART I: VISION AND ORDER -- Presumptions against War -- Prophecy and Diplomacy at a New Frontier -- PART II: FAITH AND FEAR -- Christians in an Atomic Age -- The Churches and the Thermonuclear Revolution -- PART III: POWER AND JUSTICE -- The Moral Aspects of Deterrence -- Strategies for Survival -- Redacting Just War -- Conclusion.

This book offers a new and provocative interpretation of early Cold War history by demonstrating how Christian agency played a pivotal role in the creating of space for the logic of nuclear deterrence and nuclear war fighting in the years 1945-59. Cold War chroniclers have traditionally placed great emphasis on threats of mutually assured destruction to explain the puzzle of nuclear non-use since 1945. Here nuclear deterrence is conceived as a realm of absolute necessity with no room for morality. More recently the idea of 'nuclear taboo' has generated immense interest by challenging conventional wisdom with a compelling argument regarding the conceptual (normative rather than material) bases of nuclear restraint. These accounts narrate the emergence of a distinctive ethical order with a particular premium placed on the role of (Anglo-American) Christian activists in giving rise to anti-nuclear sentiment at a formative stage 1945-59. Yet such a reading elides or obfuscates the fact that Christians were deeply divided in their imaginings. Gorry invites a reassessment of assumptions by offering a balanced examination of Christians as enablers but, more provocatively, as resisters of nuclear prohibitions in the early years of Cold War.

ISBN: 113733424X (electronic bk.)

Source: 672109Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

1005525
Antinuclear movement
--History.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: U162.61

Dewey Class. No.: 303.7 / 23

Cold war Christians and the spectre of nuclear deterrence, 1945-1959 /
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