War Anxieties Research Articles

Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals

Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals

Verification in Arms Control: beyond NTM

Arms control risk calculations are not made in accordance with a rational actor model. Judgements about the verification risks entailed in participation in an arms control agreement are made within the framework of Cold War anxieties and influenced by political and bureaucratic considerations. In approaching the strategic and theater nuclear arms control agenda of the 1980s, it will be necessary to devise verification regimes which not only provide reliable security guarantees against 'strategic breakout', but which also promote confidence among arms control policy-influential groups and strengthen coalitions in favor of participation in the agreements. At the same time it will be necessary to avoid inordinately intrusive inspection and verification procedures which hinder progress in arms control. This study explores the utility of a broad range of verification regimes which may be appropriate for future SALT, TNF and MBFR agreements in terms of their technical efficiency, contribution to confidence-building and minimalization of the inspection regime's intrusiveness.

Stillborn Alliance: Catholic Divisions in the Face of the Main Tendue

The much discussed dialogue and cooperation between Catholics and Communists in postwar France is customarily illustrated by pointing to formal debates between the two groups, to trade union alliances, youth activities and the governmental experience of tripartism. Such efforts were forged and tested in the resistance movement, where Catholic and Communist joined hands against the occupying Germans and their Vichy allies. However, the stage for such temporary alliances was set earlier, in the Popular Front sDirit of 1936-1937. In a France dislocated by economic crisis and war anxieties, Communist Party secretary Maurice Thorez had appealed to a broad spectrum of working Catholics: We offer you our hand, Catholic worker, employee, artisan, merchant, we who are laymen, because you are our brother.l Prior to the Popular Front, and the street activities of right-wing leagues in February 1934, the French Communist Party had remained aloof from entangling alliances which could have endangered its sectarian character. For varying reasons the 1930s had caused a departure from this former policy, and the main tendue was one form this volte face took for French Communists.L The nature and extent of Catholic response to this Communist gesture is the theme of this article. French Communism had good reason to expect certain sectors of French Catholicism to respond favorably to the Popular Front mood of no enemies to the left, for had not Catholic policy itself engaged in a formal break with the antirepublicanism and Maurrasianism of its recent past? Pius XI had seemingly opted for a policy or ralliement with republican institutions, international peace efforts, democratic pluralism and meaningful progressive reforms. In Maximam Gravissimamque (1924) he had made peace with the hated French

Medicine and Public Affairs. The state of American science--a touch of anemia?

Lacking political strength to enforce its claims for government financial support, the postwar scientific community originally prospered on Cold War anxieties, good will, and high, often exaggerated, expectations about the value of research. Long use of these ingredients eventually generated immunities that in the late 1960's contributed to a tapering off in the growth of federal money for science. With inflation compounding the difficulties, the scientific community then turned to persuasion, which it embodied in various reports that were intended to delineate the relation between investment in scientific research and desirable consequences.The genre is relatively new and full of . . .

American Diary

With the end of the war the already existing boom in music in the United States has grown still larger. Opera, ballet, symphony concerts, recitals, radio music, and now even musical films are attracting audiences on a scale hitherto unknown. ‘Sold Out’ is a commonplace at the auditoriums, and fees for artists are higher than ever. Such is the season 1945–46. It may be attributed to various causes: relief from war anxiety, returning soldiers, the influence of radio. All of these are important factors, but increased spending power is perhaps the biggest. The public have money to spend—savings, perhaps—and although much of it is going into light entertainment, there is also a remarkable flow in the direction of serious music.

War Anxieties of Soldiers and Their Wives

Journal Article War Anxieties of Soldiers and Their Wives Get access Edward McDonagh, Edward McDonagh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Louise McDonagh Louise McDonagh Southern Illinois University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 24, Issue 2, December 1945, Pages 195–200, https://doi.org/10.2307/2572537 Published: 01 December 1945