This book brings together cutting-edge scholarship from the United States and Europe to address political as well as cultural responses to both the arms race of the 1980s and the ascent of nuclear energy as a second, controversial dimension of the nuclear age. Diverse in its topics and disciplinary approaches, Nuclear Threats, Nuclear Fear and the Cold War of the 1980s makes a fundamental contribution to the emerging historiography of the 1980s as a whole. As of now, the era's nuclear tensions have been addressed by scholars mostly from the standpoint of security studies, focused on the...

150 Jahre Reichsgründung am 18. Januar 2021
Eckart Conzes scharf gedachte und brillant formulierte Analyse leuchtet die Hintergründe aktueller geschichtspolitischer Debatten aus und bezieht engagiert Stellung.