The Pershing Missile Protests in Comparative Perspective
by
Peter E. Quint
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2007
In the 1980s the West German Peace Movement -- fearing that the stationing of NATO nuclear missiles in Germany threatened an imminent nuclear war in Europe -- engaged in massive protests, including sustained civil disobedience in the form of sit-down demonstrations.
Civil Disobedience and the...