Readings

Adams, Ruth, and Susan Cullen, eds. The Final Epidemic: Physicians and Scientists on Nuclear War. Chicago, IL: Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, 1981.

Boyer, Paul. By the Bomb’s Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age. New York: Pantheon, 1985.

Caldicott, Helen. A Desperate Passion. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996.

———. If You Love this Planet: A Plan to Heal the Earth. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992.

———. Missile Envy: The Arms Race and Nuclear War. New York: Bantam, 1985.

———. The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush’s Military-Industrial Complex. New York: The New Press, 2002.

———. Nuclear Madness: What You Can Do! New York: Bantam, 1980.

———. Nuclear Power is Not the Answer. New York: The New Press, 2006.

Coles, Robert. “The Freeze: Crusade of the Leisure Class.” Harper’s, March 1985, 21-23.

Ehrlich, Robert, ed. Perspectives on Nuclear War and Peace Education. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.

Garfinkle, Adam M. The Politics of the Nuclear Freeze. Philadelphia, PA: Foreign Policy Research Institute, 1984.

Hogan, J. Michael. The Nuclear Freeze Campaign: Rhetoric and Foreign Policy in the Telepolitical Age. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1994.

Mechling, Elizabeth Walker, and Gale Auletta. “Beyond War: A Socio-Rhetorical Analysis of a New Class Revitalization Movement.” Western Journal of Speech Communication 50 (Fall 1986): 388-404.

Meyer, David. A Winter of Discontent: The Nuclear Freeze and American Politics. Greenwood, CT: Praeger, 1990.

Schiappa, Edward. “The Rhetoric of Nukespeak.” Communication Monographs 56 (September 1989): 253-272.

Waller, Douglas. Congress and the Nuclear Freeze: An Inside Look at the Politics of a Mass Movement. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1987.

Wong, Herman. “The Anti-Nukes Live: Physicians for Social Responsibility Rebuilding, Taking on Environmental Woes.” Los Angeles Times, October 31, 1990, 1.

 

Audio-Visual Materials

Meyer, Nicholas and ABC Motion Pictures.  The Day After.  Santa Monica, CA: MGM Home Entertainment, 2004 (1983). Video Recording.

Benjamin, Mary. Eight Minutes to Midnight. Franklin Lakes, NJ: Direct Cinema, 1981. Video Recording.

Broinowski, Anna. Helen’s War. Canberra, Australia: Ronin Films, 2004. Video Recording.

Caldicott, Helen. Prescription for Nuclear Survival. Arlington, VA: Soundworks, 1984. Cassette Tape.

If You Love This Planet. Ottawa, Ontario: National Film Board of Canada, 1982. Video Recording.

Tiger, Joseph, and Helen Caldicott. Caring for an Endangered Planet. Oakland, CA: Original Face Video, 1987. Video Recording.

On-Line Resources 

Caldicott, Helen. “Helen Caldicott, MD,” http://www.helencaldicott.com.

Carnell, Bryan. “The Stylized Rantings of Helen Caldicott,”  https://brian.carnell.com/articles/2003/the-stylized-rantings-of-helen-caldicott/.

Nuclear Policy Research Institute (NPRI). “Beyond Nuclear,” http://www.beyondnuclear.org.

“Physicians for Social Responsibility,” http://www.psr.org/.

“Women’s Action for New Directions,” http://www.wand.org/.

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