Cold War Christians and the Spectre of Nuclear Deterrence, 1945-1959

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2. Introduction

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3. Vision and Order

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   2. Presumptions against War

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   3. Prophecy and Diplomacy at a New Frontier

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4. Faith and Fear

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   2. Christians in the Atomic Age

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   3. The Churches and the Thermonuclear Revolution

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5. Power and Justice

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   2. The Moral Aspects of Deterrence

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   3. Strategies for Survival

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   4. Redacting Just War

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   5. Conclusion

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Offering a new interpretation of early Cold War history, this book demonstrates how Christian agency played a pivotal role in the creating of space for the logic of nuclear deterrence and nuclear war, showing a balanced examination of Christians as enablers but, more provocatively, as resisters of nuclear prohibitions.

• Religious and Secular history
• twentieth century history
• Cold War
• diplomacy
• history
• revolution

• Nottingham Trent University, UK

  Jonathan Gorry

Jonathan Gorry is Lecturer in International Relations at the Nottingham Trent University, UK. He is interested in notions of secularisation, questions of political violence and teaching/learning in higher education.

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