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This book, published by the United Nations Department of Public Information, explores various global issues such as the financial and economic crisis, human rights, environmental challenges, and disarmament. Key topics include the impact of economic downturns on vulnerable populations, the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade, the evolution of international human rights law, and the efforts towards nuclear disarmament. It also covers the role of media in democracy, maternal and newborn health, and the problem of space debris. The book is intended for policymakers, scholars, and those interested in international affairs and global development. Its purpose is to inform and provoke discussion on pressing global issues and to highlight the United Nations' role in addressing them.

Human rights. --- Nuclear disarmament.

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Désarmement nucléaire --- Nucleaire ontwapening --- Nuclear disarmament --- E-books --- Security, International. --- Sécurité internationale --- Disarmament. --- Désarmement --- Nuclear weapons. --- Armes nucléaires

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Confronting the Bomb tells the dramatic, inspiring story of how citizen activism helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war. This abbreviated version of Lawrence Wittner's award-winning trilogy, The Struggle Against the Bomb, shows how a worldwide, grassroots campaign—the largest social movement of modern times—challenged the nuclear priorities of the great powers and, ultimately, thwarted their nuclear ambitions. Based on massive research in the files of peace and disarmament organizations and in formerly top secret government records, extensive interviews with antinuclear activists and government officials, and memoirs and other published materials, Confronting the Bomb opens a unique window on one of the most important issues of the modern era: survival in the nuclear age. It covers the entire period of significant opposition to the bomb, from the final stages of the Second World War up to the present. Along the way, it provides fascinating glimpses of the interaction of key nuclear disarmament activists and policymakers, including Albert Einstein, Harry Truman, Albert Schweitzer, Norman Cousins, Nikita Khrushchev, Bertrand Russell, Andrei Sakharov, Linus Pauling, Dwight Eisenhower, Harold Macmillan, John F. Kennedy, Randy Forsberg, Mikhail Gorbachev, Helen Caldicott, E.P. Thompson, and Ronald Reagan. Overall, however, it is a story of popular mobilization and its effectiveness.

Antinuclear movement --- Nuclear disarmament --- Anti-nuclear movement --- Antinuclear protest movement --- Nuclear freeze movement --- Protest movement, Antinuclear --- Social movements --- Nuclear power plants --- History. --- Mouvement antinucléaire --- Désarmement nucléaire --- Histoire

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As Russia re-asserts itself on the global stage, and now the People's Republic of China, too, a look back at the hard, cold facts of the Cold War may improve Americans? understanding of our relative strengths and weaknesses and the continuing vulnerability of our primacy in the world. A defense analyst who served on the front lines of the struggle for military parity, the author was party to the steps taken by US military, technical and industrial groups to assess, counter, and of course to seek to outperform Moscow throughout the Cold War, until the ""collapse"" of the Soviet Union

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Antinuclear movement --- Political activists --- Religious leaders --- Healers --- Shoshoni Indians --- Anti-nuclear movement --- Antinuclear protest movement --- Nuclear freeze movement --- Protest movement, Antinuclear --- Social movements --- Nuclear disarmament --- Nuclear power plants --- Spiritual leaders --- Persons --- Curanderos --- Faith healers --- Mental healers --- Psychic healers --- Spiritual healers --- Traditional healers --- Healing --- Mental healing --- Spiritual healing --- Shoshone Indians --- Snake Indians --- Indians of North America --- Numic Indians --- Shoshonean Indians --- History --- Civil rights --- Religion. --- Social life and customs. --- Harney, Corbin, --- Nevada Test Site (Nev.) --- AEC Nevada Test Site (Nev.) --- Nellis Air Force Bombing and Gunnery Range (Nev.) --- Nevada Atomic Test Site (Nev.) --- Nevada Nuclear Test Site (Nev.) --- Nevada Proving Grounds (Nev.) --- Nevada National Security Site (Nev.)