How to Save the World
Learning from Citizen Engagement on Nuclear Weapons
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3758472 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D S Meyer (0000-0001-8511-9307, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Publication date | 2025-04-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00027642251331689 |
| OpenAlex | W4409771797 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 43 |
Approaching the task of generating a new citizen's movement for restraint on nuclear weapons, the article reviews the history and influence of previous movements against nuclear weapons, noting that urgent policy issues do not, by themselves, generate citizen engagement. Considering prior movements, the article notes that the Scientists Campaign, the Ban the Bomb Movement, the Campaign against Anti-Ballistic Missiles, and the Nuclear Freeze, all engaged citizen activists by pointing to policy problems and offering overly simple remedies that captured public attention. Those movements included dramatic resistance actions, including civil disobedience, and more conventional institutional efforts. Partly in response to movements, authorities moderated rhetoric and policies to reduce a public sense of urgency. Subsequent movements must address contemporary policy problems and offer easily understandable potential responses and embrace a diversity of political tactics
Citizen science · Computer security · Nuclear weapon · Political science · Public engagement · Public relations · Computer Science · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Nuclear Issues and Defense · Political Conflict and Governance
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Shaping Abortion Discourse
Culture Moves
The Challenge of Peace
Frame Disputes within the Nuclear Disarmament Movement
Dilemmas and Dimensions of Social Movement Escalation 1
Institutionalizing dissent
A Research Agenda
Johnson, Nixon, and the Doves
Rebels Against War
Waging a good war
With Enough Shovels
Protest at Selma
Coalitions and Political Context
Rough Draft of History
Antiwar and Peace Movements
It was like a fever
Protest Cycles and Political Process
Framing national security
Peace Protest and Policy
Claiming Credit
Mass Media and Instituional Change
Tactical Innovation and the Pace of Insurgency
Organizational Mortality in a Declining Social Movement
Protest on the Fly
Frame Alignment Processes, Micromobilization, and Movement Participation
"No Fracking Way!" Documentary Film, Discursive Opportunity, and Local Opposition against Hydraulic Fracturing in the United States, 2010 to 2013
The Forgotten Years of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1975-78
Wild Blue Yonder
Platform Leadership
Friends and Foes
Coalition Work in the Pro-Choice Movement
Organizational Dynamics and Construction of Multiple Feminist Identities in the National Organization for Women
Protest and Political Opportunities
The Cultural Impacts of Social Movements
Resource Mobilization and Social Movements
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |