Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-192) and index.
Contents
The response to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- "We will not go quietly into the night" : fighting for peace and freedom during the McCarthy era -- "Links in the same chain" : civil rights, anticolonialism, and the bomb in Africa -- "Desegregation not disintegration" : the Black freedom movement, Vietnam, and nuclear weapons -- "From civil rights to human rights" : African American activism in the post-Vietnam era -- A new START : nuclear disarmament in the age of Obama.