Confronting the Bomb tells the dramatic, inspiring story of how citizen activism helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war.  This abbreviated version of Lawrence Wittner’s award-winning trilogy, The Struggle Against the Bomb (comprised of One World or None, Resisting the Bomb, and Toward Nuclear Abolition), shows how a worldwide, grassroots campaign—the largest social movement of modern times—challenged the nuclear priorities of the great powers and, ultimately, thwarted their nuclear ambitions.

Examining the dramatic struggle over nuclear weapons and nuclear war that raged from 1971 to 2003, Toward Nuclear Abolition concludes the panoramic account begun in the first two books of Wittner’s Struggle Against the Bomb trilogy (One World or None and Resisting the Bomb) that cover the preceding decades.  It shows how pressure from the Nuclear Freeze campaign in the United States, the European Nuclear Disarmament campaign across the continent of Europe, and comparable movements around the world foiled the nuclear plans of hawkish government officials and propelled them, reluctantly, toward a nuclear weapons-free world. 

One World or None is the opening volume in the first comprehensive history of the global movement against nuclear weapons.  Ranging from the prophetic warning of H.G. Wells in 1913 to the H-bomb controversy of the early 1950s, One World or None tells in a lively, intriguing fashion the previously unknown story of the emergence of worldwide public efforts to save humanity from nuclear destruction.  This book won the 1995 Warren Kuehl Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations as the outstanding book published in the previous two years on peace and/or internationalism.