Abstract
Abstract Part IV of this book highlights the ultrasocial context underlying the emergence, solidification, and spread of the nuclear weapons taboo, which eventually led to significant policy transformation around the world. What started out as a dangerous game of nuclear one-upmanship, including the actual use of nuclear weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, quickly developed into the widely held belief that these weapons should never be used. The non-use idea was not only a reaction against its consequences but also a parallel sense of optimism for what such opposition could mean for world order and peaceful co-existence. In striving to explain a nearly eighty-year pattern of non-use, an ultrasocial approach draws attention to how a compelling idea, grounded in empathy and a sense of common humanity, led to the strongest societal movement in modern times.
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