| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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The Struggle against the Bomb,vol. 3: Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1971 to the Present. By Lawrence S. Wittner. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. xvi, 657 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 0-8047-4861-6. Paper, $32.95,ISBN 0-8047-4862-4.)

Responding to the pressures generated by the worldwide antinuclear campaign in 1981, President Ronald Reagan declared, "'If things get hotter and hotter and arms control remains an issue, maybe I should go see Andropov and propose eliminating all nuclear weapons'" (p. 312). Toward Nuclear Abolition, the final volume in the trilogy The Struggle against the Bomb, presents the inspiring, dramatic, and comprehensive story of how citizen activists throughout the world created the heat that Reagan was referencing to help curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war. Examining crucial events from 1971 to the present, the author continues the account he began in two previous volumes, One World or None (1993) and Resisting the Bomb (1997). With over 106 pages of notes, Lawrence S. Wittner's outstanding book employs massive research into previously secret governmental records and organizational files in an effort to show how concerned and determined citizens throughout the world have altered the course of history.

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