The Great Collapse, Democratic Paralysis and the Reception of the Bomb
作者:
SHELDON UNGAR,
期刊:
Journal of Historical Sociology
(WILEY Available online 1992)
卷期:
Volume 5,
issue 1
页码: 84-103
ISSN:0952-1909
年代: 1992
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6443.1992.tb00024.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractExpanding the traditional question of how and why the bomb was built when it was, this paper asks how socio‐historical factors influenced the reception of the bomb in the West. It suggests that the bomb was received as the ‘winning weapon’ and that this view of it was linked to two historical factors: the Great Collapse, which undermined belief in historical progress and threatened the survival of the democracies; and the failure of balancing, the inability of the democracies, for a number of sociopolitical reasons, to act in their own collective security. As the winning weapon, the bomb was expected to overcome these problems. More broadly, the analysis suggests that when collective actions do not appear capable of redressing persistent threats, then leaders tend to invest their faith in technological pan
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