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Looking at national peace organizations alongside lesser-known protest collectives, this book argues that anti-nuclear activists encountered familiar challenges common to other social movements of the late twentieth century.

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Introduction: Dynamics of Anti-Nuclear Activism in the Second Cold War 1. Anti-Nuclear Coalitions: Pacifism, Radical Action, and a Rising Atomic Threat 2. Building a Mainstream Movement: Advertising, Publicity, and Image 3. Personal Politics: Radical Feminism, Difference, and Anti-Nuclear Activism 4. Prayer or Protest? Fasting, Nonviolence, and Anti-Nuclear Activism in the 1980s 5. Activism in the Heartland: Local Identities, Community, and ´The Day After,´ in Lawrence, Kansas 6. Lifestyle Politics and Participatory Democracy: Communicating Peace across the United States on the Great Peace March Epilogue

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Kyle Harvey is based at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He was the 2013 C.H. Currey Memorial Fellow at the State Library of New South Wales.

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