The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

By: Prof. Martin Shaw

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Hardcover | 14 January 2024

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The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) began in 1957 with a small group of public figures and grew into a mass movement that would resonate worldwide. Martin Shaw details CND's rise, the activists involved, the tensions around direct action, and the culture, radicalism and social groups that the campaign mobilized to "ban the bomb". He shows how CND's approach, as part of the Stop the War Coalition in response to the Iraq War, influenced the Labour Party and, indirectly, the Obama administration, when the Party opposed Cruise missile attacks in Syria in 2013, and when Jeremy Corbyn, a lifelong CND supporter, was elected its leader in 2015.

The book shows CND to be a pioneering example of activism for peace whose style and ideas continue to reverberate in the wider protest movements of the twenty-first century, from Occupy to Extinction Rebellion.

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The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has been at the centre of anti-nuclear protest in the UK for six decades. Martin Shaw has written a stimulating, balanced and comprehensive account of its remarkable history - something we all need to know about if we are to find ways to act in the face of renewed nuclear dangers including explicit nuclear threats, the unravelling of nuclear arms control, and the development of new generations of nuclear weapons.

-- Mary Kaldor, Director, Conflict Research Programme, London School of Economics

Shaw expertly synthesizes over 75 years of anti-nuclear protests and resistance into one compelling, highly readable, short history. The result is the single best survey of the anti-nuclear movement in Britain, told judiciously by one of its long-term participants and a respected scholar of international relations.

-- Christopher R. Hill, University of South Wales

Martin Shaw's excellent book is the first comprehensive study of the multi-faceted and complex movement of opposition to nuclear weapons: it is informed, reflective and reliable, drawing on a range of sources, and judicious in its analysis. It is, moreover, well written and readable.

-- Richard Taylor, Emeritus Professorial Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge

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