There was a major uprising in Western Europe against the nuclear arms race in parallel with the Nuclear Weapon Free movement in the United States, as can be seen in this October 22, 1983 photo of a Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament protest in London. Photo by Jean Guichard/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images
There was a major uprising in Western Europe against the nuclear arms race in parallel with the Nuclear Weapon Free movement in the United States, as can be seen in this October 22, 1983 photo of a Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament protest in London. Photo by Jean Guichard/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images
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Keywords: China, Taiwan, arms control with China, nuclear activism, nuclear threat reduction, nuclear weapons
Topics: Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics
Richard L. Garwin
Physicist Richard L. Garwin is IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. He has contributed to the... Read More
Frank N. von Hippel
Frank N. von Hippel is a co-founder of the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University’s School of Public and International... Read More
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