One World or None
A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement Through 1953
One World or None is the opening volume in the first comprehensive history of the global movement against nuclear weapons. Ranging from the prophetic warning of H.G. Wells in 1913 to the H-bomb controversy of the early 1950s, One World or None tells in a lively, intriguing fashion the previously unknown story of the emergence of worldwide public efforts to save humanity from nuclear destruction. This book won the 1995 Warren Kuehl Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations as the outstanding book published in the previous two years on peace and/or internationalism.
An admirable and meticulous job of tracing the tempestuous history of the international peace movement, from the advent of the atomic bomb to the end of the Korean War.”
— American Historical Review
The best description that exists of efforts to promote disarmament around the globe.”
— Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
A powerfully written and impressively researched study. . . . It would be hard to imagine a better example of multinational history.”
— Canadian Journal of History