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diff --git a/chapter0.md b/chapter0.md index c31f9fe..9dc5484 100644 --- a/chapter0.md +++ b/chapter0.md @@ -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 |