Protest and Survive (A Collection of Essays on the Threat of Nuclear War in Europe)

Cruise Missiles; Nuclear War in Europe; Civil Defence; Soviet Armaments; US Military Plans; War, Militarism and the Soviet State; Britain's Tuppennyworth. BLURB: "HAVE CRUISE MISSILES INCREASED THE CHANCES OF NUCLEAR WAR? Nukes are nasty and governments are anxious to ensure that nuclear wars are ‘limited’ to a ‘theatre’. Cruise missiles deployed in the UK are seen by the British government as preserving our ancient independence in the face of the ‘monstrous’ Russian threat. In this book E. P. Thompson and his colleagues challenge the grounds of this assumption and show that use of the owner-controlled missiles by the US in a ‘limited’ war will mean the complete destruction of the ‘theatre’, of Western Europe and of Great Britain in particular. ..." See also LAURIE, Peter: "Beneath the City Streets" (1979) ISBN 0 586 05055 8.