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Nuclear war and the city: perspectives on municipal interventions in defence (Great Britain, New Zealand, West Germany, USA, 1980–1985)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2015

SUSANNE SCHREGEL
SUSANNE SCHREGEL*
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a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne, University of Cologne, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, 50923 Köln, Germany
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Focusing on the example of municipal interventions in defence, this article proposes to evaluate the role of cities and towns in Cold War policies. It discusses how, in the early 1980s, residents in Great Britain, New Zealand, West Germany and the USA claimed responsibility for defence and (dis)armament policies in the name of their respective city or home town. To justify this claim, protagonists not only portrayed urban settlements as probable targets of nuclear war. They also highlighted cities and towns as concrete places and drew attention to locality as a scale that might bear specific potentials for participation and empowerment. Yet a closer analysis of such initiatives in the four countries reveals that municipal activities for peace and disarmament developed in far more complex spatial relations than references to the ‘local’ as a scale of involvement might imply.

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Urban History , Volume 42 , Issue 4 , November 2015 , pp. 564 - 583
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8 The collection (abbreviated as SCPC) comprises material from several peace initiatives such as Nuclear Free America or the Nuclear Free Zone Registry.

9 This archive (abbreviated as LSE) holds material on peace campaigning, for instance from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).

10 The archive (cited as MCC) provides information about municipal nuclear free zone initiatives in Great Britain.

11 Holding the LRP. The collection consists of material mostly from the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone Committee.

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13 The collection of sources for this article has generously been funded by the Graduate School ‘Topologie der Technik’, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany.

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18 The founding members were Avon County, Dumbarton District, the Greater London Council, Gwent County, Islington Borough, Leicester Borough, Lothian Region, Sheffield Metropolitan Borough, Tyne and Wear Metropolitan County, Wrexham Maelor District Council and Manchester City Council. See ibid., 2.

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25 The decision was made on 17 Mar. 1981 in response to a proposal by a local women's initiative. See LRP, MB 2097, box 14, item 10, letter from T. Gunn to J. McDermott, 13 Feb. 1981; letter from J. McDermott re Nuclear Free Zone. A comprehensive analysis of New Zealand's nuclear weapon free zone movement is provided by J.L. Stone's (unpublished) thesis: ‘Rebelling by any means possible. New Zealand local government nuclear weapon free zones’ (Massey University, 2005), esp. 11–32. See also Leadbeater, Peace, 69–78.

26 LRP, MB 2097, box 12, item 6, L. Ross, ‘Brief history of the New Zealand nuclear-free zone campaign. A paper for the Asian Peace Research Association Conference in Christchurch, Jan. 31–Feb. 4, 1992’, 1–5.

27 Among others, the Stratford resolution was supported by Alexandra Borough Council, Arrowton Borough Council, Dargaville Borough Council, Devonport Borough Council, Eltham County Council, Feilding Borough Council, Foxton Borough Council, Glen Eden Borough Council, Inangahua County Council, Queenstown Borough Council. LRP, MB 2097, box 10, item 17; LRP, MB 2097, box 12, item 6.

28 Citation from: ‘Nuclear reply “quite rude”’, Hauraki Herald, 6 Aug. 1983. For further examples and reactions to the letter-writing campaign, see ‘Devonport's N-free letter is criticised’, Hawke's Bay Herald Tribune, 19 Jul. 1983; ‘British reply to nuclear stand upsets councillors’, Timaru Herald, 20 Jul. 1983; ‘Nuclear stand is criticised’, Westport News, 20 Jul. 1983; ‘Inangahua county gets response on nuclear issue’, Greymouth Evening Star, 22 Jul. 1983; ‘“Disappointed” reaction of Devonport councillor’, North Shore Times Advertiser, 26 Jul. 1983. All LRP, MB 2097, box 10, item 17.

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30 Regan, The New City Republics, 36–7, states that about half the nuclear free zones that had been declared by 1987 had this status.

31 Later, some local environmental and anti-nuclear initiatives were claimed as the ‘first’ nuclear free zone campaigns in the United States. Candidates for this title were initiatives against nuclear power in Missoula/Montana (1978–80) and a petition initiative that was launched in Santa Cruz County, California, against a facility of Lockheed Missile and Space Company in 1980. See ‘Proclamation. County of Missoula’, New Abolitionist, 4 (1989), 4; ‘Missoula celebrates 10th anniversary’, New Abolitionist, 1 (1989), 4; Bennett, The New Abolitionists, 80–1; ‘Happy birthday. The first 30 years’, New Abolitionist, 1 (1988), 6.

32 Hawaii County Ordinance 665. See ‘Nuclear free Hawaii’, New Abolitionist, 4 (1983), 6–7. In a conflict arising over the visit of nuclear warship USS Ouellet in Hilo Harbor on the occasion of the ‘International Festival of the Pacific’, Hawaii County Council amended the original ordinance in July 1984 to exempt the US military from compliance. A proposal of nuclear free zone supporters to overturn the 1984 amendment and to restore the original decision from 1981 was defeated in a ballot with 65% against and 35% for the proposition in Nov. 1986. See ‘Hawaii NFZ amended’, New Abolitionist, 5 (1984), 9; ‘Legal victory in Hawaii County!’, New Abolitionist, 4 (1986), 1; ‘Voters create 6 more NFZs!’, New Abolitionist, 5 (1986), 1–2.

33 The American Nuclear Free Zone Registry counted 84 ‘nuclear free’ cities and towns in 1984, 108 in 1985 and 132 by Nov. 1986. See SCPC, CDGA Coll. box Nuclear Free Zone Registry, ‘News release: U.S. nuclear free zones – on the increase’, 17 Dec. 1984; SCPC, CDGA Coll. box Northern Sun Merchandising through Nuclear Free Zone Registry, Nuclear Free Zone Registry, ‘Population of U.S. nuclear free zone cities and counties 1981–1986’.

34 ‘Nuclear Free New York City’, New Abolitionist, 5 (1984), 1 and 5.

35 ‘Chicago!’, New Abolitionist, 2 (1985), 1.

36 Shuman, ‘Dateline main street’ (1986/87), 154, 159–60, 165.

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38 ‘Call for bays to be nuclear-free’, North Shore Times Advertiser, 10 May 1983. See LRP, MB 2097, box 10, item 17.

39 ‘Hokianga County bans nuclear weapons’, Northern News – Kaikohe, 29 Mar. 1984. Ibid. See also the quotation in n. 2.

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41 ‘Nuclear issues make councils “look silly”’, LRP, MB 2097, box 10, item 17.

42 For instance, ‘more would be achieved if these people. . .got on their knees and prayed’, or: ‘Let's ban sister A. . .instead’ (who introduced a nuclear free zone ordinance). First quote from ‘Awaiting peace petition’, Southland Times, 29 Jun. 1983, LRP, MB 2097, box 10, item 17; second quote from ‘Just what city needs’ (Saginaw News, 17 Mar. 1985), New Abolitionist, 3 (1985), 4.

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44 On the relevance of space, place and scale for social movements and contentious politics, see Miller, Geography; Newstead, C., Reid, C.K. and Sparke, M., ‘The cultural geography of scale’, in Anderson, K., Domosh, M., Pile, S. and Thrift, N. (eds.), Handbook of Cultural Geography (London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi, 2003), 485–97Google Scholar.

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53 Examples are Leeds and the Bomb; Target Hackney; South Yorkshire and Nuclear War; South Glamorgan and Nuclear Weapons; Emergency Planning and Nuclear War in Greater Manchester; Kirklees and the Bomb; Bristol and the Bomb; Bradford – The Day After. Regan, The New City Republics, 18–21; CND, Nuclear-Free Zone Campaign Manual, 16–17; Sanity, Sep. 1984, 41.

54 Shuman, ‘Dateline main street’ (1986/87), 159, names San Francisco, Cambridge, MA, and Boulder, CO.

55 See for instance Stafford, J., ‘“Stay at home”. The politics of nuclear civil defence, 1968–83’, Twentieth Century British History, 3 (2012), 398–404Google Scholar. Local resolutions in New Zealand also referred to civil defence issues, but the topic was apparently less important than in Great Britain, Germany and the USA. Influential in this context was the Christchurch City Council resolution.

56 As a practical instruction for such activities (which were often recommended in the United States), see SCPC CDGA Coll. box Northern Sun Merchandising through Nuclear Free Zone Registry, Nuclear Free America, nuclear free zone organizing packets, packet 1, ‘Think globally, act locally, invest peacefully’.

57 LSE END/Temp/320, Greater London Council, London as a Nuclear Free Zone.

58 LSE END/Temp/320, Disarming the Oceans. International Resistance to the Nuclear Navies; ‘Nuclear free. . . well almost’, Inner City News, 2 Aug. 1983; ‘Devonport council wants change of anchorage’, North Shore Times Advertiser, 2 Aug. 1983, both LRP MB 2097, box 10, item 17.

59 SCPC, CDGA, Mobilization for survival, box 2, Local branch/office Cambridge, R. Schreuer and E. Segal, ‘Organizing for a nuclear free Cambridge’.

60 Ibid.

61 SCPC CDGA Coll. box Northern Sun Merchandising through Nuclear Free Zone Registry, Nuclear Free America, nuclear free zone organizing packets, packet 1, 13.

62 For instance in New York, Milwaukee (USA), Avon, Derbyshire, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nottinghamshire (GB). Shuman, ‘Dateline main street’ (1986/87), 159–60; Regan, The New City Republics, 26–7.

63 Shuman, ‘Dateline main street’ (1986/87), 161; Hobbs, City Hall, 28.

64 MCC M711/3/9, Nuclear Free Wales, 1981–85, Ceredigion District Council, Letter 15 Jul. 1981; Dyfed City Council, Letter 5 May 1981. On the background, see T. Shaw, ‘The BBC, the state and Cold War culture. The case of television's The War Game (1965)’, English Historical Review, 121 (2006), 1351–84.

65 S. Haumann and S. Schregel, ‘Andere Räume, andere Städte, und die Transformation der Gesellschaft. Hausbesetzungen und Atomwaffenfreie Zonen als alternative Raumpraktiken’, in Balz, H. and Friedrichs, J.-H. (eds.), ‘All we ever wanted’. Eine Kulturgeschichte europäischer Protestbewegungen der 1980er Jahre (Berlin, 2012), 53–72, 68–9Google Scholar; ‘Nuclear free zone signs installed in Garrett Park’, New Abolitionist, 6 (1983), 5; ‘St. Helena, CA’, New Abolitionist, 5 (1984), 3; ‘Nuclear free zone sign stolen, suspect apprehended’, New Abolitionist, 2 (1985), 12; ‘NFZ souvenirs’, Nuclear Free Zone Bulletin, 5 (1985), 7; ‘Nuke-free signs for city’, Wanganui Chronicle, 15 Nov. 1983; ‘“No nukes” sign ok with council’, Wanganui Herald, 11 Nov. 1983. Both articles from LRP, MB 2097, box 10, item 17.

66 Examples are given in ‘Nuclear vote in!’, S.W. News, 3 May 1984; ‘Bus signs to urge “peace”’, Star, 22 Jun. 1983 (‘These stickers will be educational and our buses will be ambassadors of peace. Buses will carry the message of peace to people in Waimari’). Both articles from LRP, MB 2097, box 10, item 17.

67 See, for instance, CND, Nuclear-Free Zone Campaign Manual, 10 (mentioning a ‘cherry tree planting ceremony’ at the first international NFZ conference 1984, Manchester, GB); ‘Peace group wants signs marking zone’, Hawke's Bay Herald Tribune (Hastings), 29 Nov. 1983, LRP, MB 2097, box 10, item 17 (stating the ‘planting of an olive tree’ to celebrate Napier City Council's nuclear-free decision); ‘Proposal for Christchurch to be declared a peace city’ (2002), LRP, MB 2097, box 16, item 4 (referring to the planting of a ‘peace tree to commemorate the UN International Year of Peace’ 1986); ‘Hiroshima and Nagasaki remembered’, Nuclear Free Zone Bulletin, 6 (1985), 2 (mentioning the opening of peace gardens and parks as well as cherry tree plantings in Merseyside, Newcastle, Durham, Redditch and Hackney, Great Britain, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki).

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69 In April 1984, a first international nuclear free local authority conference took place in Manchester. Further international conferences were organized in Cordoba/Spain (1985), Perugia/Italy (1986), Eugene/Oregon (USA) (1989) and Glasgow/Scotland (1990). An International Steering Committee of nuclear free local authorities, established in 1984, promoted further transnational co-operation.

70 Alger, C.F., ‘The world relations of cities. Closing the gap between social science paradigms and everyday human experience’, International Studies Quarterly, 34 (1990), 506CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Schregel, Atomkrieg, 307–10; Regan, The New City Republics, 39–50; Shuman, ‘Dateline main street’ (1986/87), 159; Hobbs, City Hall, 28.

71 www.mayorsforpeace.org, accessed 12 Dec. 2013.

72 While Atlanta, Chicago, Concord, New Haven and San Francisco were chosen for the USA, as well as Brighton and Hove and Sheffield for Great Britain, neither municipalities from New Zealand nor from West Germany were represented in this initiative before the end of the Cold War. www.iapmc.org/member-cities/years-of-joining, accessed 12 Dec. 2013; Statute of the International Association of Peace Messenger Cities (2012), www.iapmc.org/about-us/statute-of-the-international-association-of-peace-messenger-cities, accessed 13 Dec. 2013.

73 Kirby, A., Marston, S. and Seasholes, K., ‘World cities and global communities. The municipal foreign policy movement and new roles for cities’, in Knox, P.L. and Taylor, P.J. (eds.), World Cities in a World-System (Cambridge, 1995), 267–79CrossRefGoogle Scholar, place the US foreign policy movement in the context of the ‘world city’ debate and emphasize the role that even small towns could assume as ‘active players on the global stage’. A summary of debates about a new localism and politics of scale is given by Clarke, N., ‘In what sense “spaces of neoliberalism”? The new localism, the new politics of scale, and town twinning’, Political Geography, 28 (2009), 496–8CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

74 B. Kent, ‘Nuclear-free zones’, Times, 12 Aug. 1985, 11.

75 On these conflicts, see, for instance, D. Walker, ‘“Nuclear free” councils will be forced into civil defence role’, Times, 22 Oct. 1983, 2; F. Barker, ‘Civil defence – new rules’, Sanity, Sep. 1984, 5; ‘Home office ultimatum’, Nuclear Free Zone Bulletin, 9 (1986), 1.

76 Bundesminister der Verteidigung, Kernwaffenfreie Zonen? Argumente zu einem aktuellen Thema (1984), afas 90.II.1980:41.

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78 Leadbeater, Peace, 129–43, 168–75, 185–8.

79 Ibid.

80 L. Ross, ‘List of nuclear weapon free zones declared since map 1st June 1984’, LRP, MB 2097, box 15, item 14.

81 For instance when the secretary of the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone Committee rather smugly quoted a US-guest lecturer: ‘New Zealand is the only country in the world where democracy is working – where government listens to the voice of the people on nuclear issues.’ Ibid.