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Judging by the output of fiction with nuclear themes, coupled with movies, spy novels, folk music, poetry, and political analysis, the fear of nuclear war between the United States and Soviet Union (and China) pervaded much of the popular “underground” spirit during the cold war, particularly during the period from 1980 to 1989.1 U.S. and European peace and “antinuclear” movements urged radical reductions in nuclear weapons—in the fear that the “arms race” would inevitably lead to conventional conflict, if not to nuclear war.
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Literature in the 1980s with themes of nuclear war was nearly double the number of that of the period from 1950 to 1959. See Paul Brians, “Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction,” (Pullman, Washington: Washington State University, 2003; 2007) http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/nukepop/chart.html and http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/ ntc/NTC8.pdf.
J. L. Gaddis, “The Cold War, the Long Peace, and the Future,” in The End of the Cold War: Its Meaning and Implications, ed. Michael J. Hogan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)
John Lewis Gaddis, The Long Peace (New York: Oxford, 1987).
John Lewis Gaddis, The Long Peace (New York: Oxford, 1987).
For development of the concept of “security community,” see Karl Deutsch, Political Community: North-Atlantic Area (New York: Greenwood Press, 1957).
See also Emmanuel Adler and Michael Barnett (eds.), Security Communities (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
Alex J. Bellamy, Security Communities and their Neighbors (New York: Palgrave, 2004). See also Chapter 10 this book.
Charles Krauthammer, “The Unipolar Moment,” Foreign Affairs America and the World 1990/91; “The Unipolar Moment Revisited,” The National Interest (Winter 2002/2003). http://bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu/BCSIA_content/documents/Krauthammer.pdf.
Dan Balz and Bob Woodward, “America’s Chaotic Road to War,” Washington Post (January 27, 2002). After consultation with President Bush, vice-president Dick Cheney gave the orders to shoot down the hijacked airliner. Did it crash or was it shot down?
Samuel Huntington, “The Hispanic Challenge,” Foreign Policy (March/April 2004).
See critique of Huntington’s position: Philippa Strum and Andrew Selee, The Hispanic Challenge? What We Know about Latino Immigration, Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (March 29, 2004) http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/pubs/HispChall.pdf.
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Gardner, H. (2007). Introduction. In: Averting Global War. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230608733_1
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