| Samenvatting: | Have cruise missiles increased the chances of nuclear war?
Nukes are nasty and governments are anxious to ensure that nuclear wars are 'limited' to a 'theatre'. Cruise missiles deployed in de UK are seen by the British government as preserving our ancient independence in the face of the 'monstrous' Russian threat.
In this book E.P. Thompson and his colleagues challenge the grounds of this assumpyion and show that use of the owner-controlled missiles by the US in a 'limited' war will mean the complete destruction of the 'theatre' of Western Europe and of Great Britain in particular.
So, how likely is it? Cruise missiles which enable attack deep within the Soviet Union will at least allow the US to fight on our soil rather than on theirs. That, combined with the belligerent beliefs of many Western goverments, the paranoia of Russia and the bureaucratization of mass destruction, turns what used to be a remote possibility into a frightening probability.
This book examines the politics of what is being done and, in the face of the British goverment's extraordirany pamphlet PROTECT AND SURVIVE, urges immediate and determined opposition.
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| Trefwoorden: | kernwapens, kruisraketten, Europa, Verenigde Staten, Rusland, NATO, militarisme, Groot Brittannië, ontwapening, protesteren, vredesbeweging, |