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A reference for activists and government officials who truly wish to represent the future of the planet. Helen Caldicott, The Progressive The quality and prodigious depth of Wittner s scholarship in tracing such a disparate and complex multinational history mark a new and invaluable contribution to our understanding of where the struggle has been and where it might lead. . . . [Wittner] provides the best and most comprehensive account yet to b...

Recounts the rise of one of America's most important social movements.

A longtime agitator against war and social injustice, Lawrence Wittner has been tear-gassed, threatened by police with drawn guns, spied upon by the US government, arrested, and purged from his job for political reasons. In this absorbing memoir, he traces the dramatic course of a life and career that took him from a Brooklyn boyhood in the 1940s to an education at Columbia University and the University of Wisconsin to the front lines of peace...

Lawrence S. Wittner is Professor of History at the State University of New York, Albany, and former President of the Peace History Society. He is the author of the trilogy, published by Stanford University Press, The Struggle Against the Bomb: One World or None (1993), Resisting the Bomb (1997), and Toward Nuclear Abolition (2003).

A perceptive account of the effort to control nuclear weapons in the years following World War II. It is the first of three volumes in an ambitious work that tells the story of the struggle to contain the atom more fully than ever before....The best description that exists of efforts to promote disarmament around the globe."--The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists"Wittner's work demonstrates truly prodigious research. Beyond providing a compreh...

Toward Nuclear Abolition" presents the inspiring, dramatic story of how citizen activists helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war.

Confronting the Bomb tells the dramatic, inspiring story of how citizen activism helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war.

Lawrence S. Wittner is Professor of History at the State University of New York, Albany.