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authorJoe Carstairs <me@joeac.net>2026-07-29 10:31:35 +0100
committerJoe Carstairs <me@joeac.net>2026-07-29 10:31:35 +0100
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@@ -76,12 +76,20 @@ tens of millions of civilians would be killed directly, probably resulting in a
total breakdown of civil society [@american-apocalyptic, pp. 48-53;
@waller-2026].
-Such rhetoric served to quell resistance to pro-nuclear policies, so those who
-opposed those policies attacked this narrative. To do this, rhetors invented
-terms such as 'nuclear winter', 'nuclear holocaust', 'nuclear apocalypse', and
-'nuclear Armageddon', while attempting to persuade their audiences that a
-nuclear war would bring about the end of the world, and must therefore be
-avoided at all costs [see e.g. @nuclear-winters-tale, chp. 6].
+In the views of anti-nuclear campaigners, such rhetoric served to quell resistance to pro-nuclear policies.
+A CND leaflet from the 1960s asserted that:
+
+> The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament does not wish to belittle the efforts of
+> Civil Defence workers who train themselves to help their fellow-citizens in
+> distress. Our argument is with the Government which pretends that they can
+> save millions if a nuclear war breaks out. They use Civil Defence to delude
+> people that Britain could survive an all-out nuclear attack. [@cnd-civil-defence]
+
+To fight back against this rhetoric, rhetors invented terms such as 'nuclear
+winter', 'nuclear holocaust', 'nuclear apocalypse', and 'nuclear Armageddon',
+attempting to persuade their audiences that a nuclear war would bring about the
+end of the world, and must therefore be avoided at all costs [see e.g.
+@nuclear-winters-tale, chp. 6].
Beginning in the late 1980s, climate change moved in to take over the role of
the green movement's master frame [@rootes-2012]. However, the movement's