PEACEST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, Bertrand Russell, Mutual Assured Destruction

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Peace Studies
• Course: PEACEST 1A03
• Professor: Jennifer Tunnicliffe

Document Summary

1942-1945: us manhatan project to develop irst nuclear weapon. July 1945: us explodes irst nuclear bomb ( trinity test ) to signal beginning of the nuclear age. August 1945: atomic bombs dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki tremendous loss of life, environmental damage. August 1949: ussr tests its irst nuclear bomb to signal the oicial beginning of the nuclear arms race. Scienist against the bomb 1940s: federaion of atomic scienists worked to inform public about dangers of nuclear weapons, pressured governments. Rise in popular acivism 1950s: rise in public concern about dangers of radioacive fallout, tied to more general rise in environmental consciousness. War does not determine who is right, only who is let. 1950s and 1960s establishment of many ani-nuclear orgs. Campaign for nuclear disarmament 1958 (uk: uncondiional renunciaion of the use, producion or dependence on nuclear weapons by britain call for disarmament.