In 1983, more than one million Germans joined together to protest NATO's deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe. International media overflowed with images of marches, rallies, and human chains as protesters blockaded depots and agitated for disarmament. Though they failed to halt the deployment, the episode was a decisive one for German society, revealing deep divisions in the nation's political culture while continuing to mobilize activists. This volume provides a comprehensive reference work on the "Euromissiles" crisis as experienced by its various protagonists, analyzing NATO's diplomatic and military maneuvering and tracing the political, cultural, and moral discourses that surrounded the missiles' deployment in East and West Germany.

Christoph Becker-Schaum is the Director of the Green Memory Archive at the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin.

Introduction: The Nuclear Crisis, NATO's Double-Track Decision, and the Peace Movement of the 1980s: An Introduction¿
Christoph Becker-Schaum, Philipp Gassert, Martin Klimke, Wilfried Mausbach, and Marianne Zepp

Chapter 1. From Helsinki to Afghanistan:¿¿ The CSCE Process and the Beginning of the Second Cold War
¿Anja Hanisch

Chapter 2. The NATO Double-Track Decision: Genesis and Implementation¿
Tim Geiger

Chapter 3. SS-20 and Pershing II: Weapon Systems and the Dynamization of East-West Relations¿
Oliver Bange

Chapter 4. NATO's Double-Track Decision and East-West German Relations
¿Hermann Wentker

Chapter 5.Political Parties
Jan Hansen

Chapter 6. Eco-Pacifism: The Environmental Movement as a Source for the Peace Movement¿
Silke Mende and Birgit Metzger

Chapter 7. Rationality of Fear: The Intellectual Foundations of the Peace Movement¿
Marianne Zepp

Chapter 8. The Institutional Organization of the Peace Movement
¿Christoph Becker-Schaum

Chapter 9. The Spaces and Places of the Peace Movement¿
Susanne Schregel

Chapter 10. The Protagonists of the Peace Movement¿
Saskia Richter

Chapter 11. The Independent Peace Movement in East Germany¿
Rainer Eckert

Chapter 12. Visual and Media Strategies of the Peace Movement
Kathrin Fahlenbrach and Laura Stapane

Chapter 13. The Churches
¿Sebastian Kalden and Jan Ole Wiechmann

Chapter 14. Trade Unions
Dietmar Süß

Chapter 15. The Police
Michael Sturm

Chapter 16. "Men Build Rockets": The Women's Peace Movement
Reinhild Kreis

Chapter 17. Civil Defense: Preparing for the Worst-Case Scenario in Politics and Science¿
Claudia Kemper

Chapter 18. Nuclear Doomsday Scenarios in Film, Literature, and Music¿
Philipp Baur

Chapter 19. A Triumph of Disarmament? The 1980s and the International Political System¿
Florian Pressler

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