Our Generation Against Nuclear War
Dimitrios Roussopoulos, ed.

In 1961, amidst the rise of the first massive disarmament movement, a groundbreaking journal Our Generation was established to critically examine the multifaceted issues of war and peace. Over the next two decades, this journal published an extraordinary collection of articles that delved into international power politics, the arms race, and their profound impact on society and everyday life.

This book compiles selected essays by the journal's founding editor, Dimitrios Roussopoulos, showcasing some of the most insightful material relevant to debates of the time and the anti-war movement. Our Generation Against Nuclear War offers readers a deeper understanding of the nuclear disarmament movement in North America from the 1960s until the 1980s, including writings from some of the era's most influential thinkers. 

Table of Contents:

BACKGROUND: WHAT EVERYBODY SHOULD KNOW

• The Effects of a 20 Megaton Bomb by the Scientists' Committee for Radiation Information
• The History of Disarmament by Nicolette Carey
• What You Don't Know About the Arms Race by Peggy Duff
• The Inescapable Links: Interventionism and Nuclear War by Michael T. Klare
• Economics of Armament and Disarmament by Seymour Melman

SPHERES OF INFLUENCE AND IMPERIALISM

• On Henry A. Kissinger by Danny Drache
• On Reagan's Foreign Policy by Noam Chomsky
• The Driving Force for Imperialism Today by Paul Mattick
• Stalin is Dead, But Neo-Stalinism Lives by the Editors
• Open letter to the 27th parliament and the Government of Canada
• Open letter on the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan by the Editors
• Vodka-Cola by Charles Levinson

CANADA AND THE INTERNATIONAL WAR SYSTEM

• Canada Joins the Club by Farley Mowat
• Nuclear Arms for Canada: A Strong Case Examined by C.B. Macpherson
• Unilateral Disarmament for Canada by E.G. Adams 
• Note on the Role of 'National Defence' in Canada by the Editors
• On NATO and NORAD by James M. Minifie
• Will Canada Lead? by F.C. Hunnis
• Canadian War Industries and Vietnam by Phillip Resnick
• From Deterrence to Intimidation: Canada, the Cruise and the Changing Role of Nuclear Weapons by Ernie Regehr
• Canadian Nuclear Energy - Who Needs It? by Fred Knelman

UNILATERALISM

• Is there a Theory on Unilateralism? by April Carter
• Unilateral Initiatives: A Strategy in Search of a Theory by Irving Louis Horowitz
• The Meanings of Unilateralism: A Peace Movement View by Alan Shuttleworth

NEUTRALISM AND NON-ALIGNMENT

• From Bandung to Belgrade by Homer A. Jack
• Positive Neutralism in the Third World by Peter Worsley
• The People - A Third Force by Tony Smythe
• Alignment and Non-Alignment by David Boulton, J.D. Bernal, and Alfred Hassler

NON-VIOLENCE

• Non-Violence and Direct Action by April Carter
• Letter from Aldous Huxley to Anthony Brooke
• Non-Violent Defence by Adam Roberts
• The Need for a Substitute for War by Gene Sharp

PEACE RESEARCH

• A Critical Definition of Peace Research by Johan Galtung
• A Critical View of Peace Research, USA by Thomas Hayden and Richard Flacks

THE PEACE MOVEMENT

• The Peace Movement and Social Change by A.J. Muste
• SUPA: An Ethical Movement in Search of an Analysis by James Harding
• From Protest to Radical Politics by Paul Booth and Lee Webb
• Student Politics and World Politics by Philip G. Altbach and Gail Paradise
• Women March on the Pentagon by Merriel Fish
• Group Politics, Class Politics and the Peace Movement by Maclean Wells
• Peace Training: A Beginning by Theodore Olson 

PEACE, POLITICS, AND PHILOSOPHY 

• Thesis for the Atomic Age by Gunther Andrews
• A Plea for Social Imagination by Robert Jungk
• Indifference to Life by Erich Fromm
• Violence on Trial by Gabriel Breton
• A Psychiatrist Looks at the Nuclear Arms Race by F.W. Hanley
• What is the New Radicalism? by Dimitrios Roussopoulos 
• Loyalty to Humanity Above All Other Loyalties by the Editors
• The Politics of the Peace Movement by Dimitrios Roussopoulos
• A Case Study for the Disarmament Movement by Noam Chomsky
• The Decline of the State by Kathleen Gough
• Note on the future of the peace movement by the Editors

ON OUR GENERATION:

• Bertrand Russell
• Jawaharlal Nehru

1983; 478 pages

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