ABSTRACT
The tense relationship between Russia and the West fuelled a fear that the end of the world might be at hand. The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) was launched in 1958. The writer J.B.Priestley (born 1894); the philosopher Bertrand Russell (born 1872); Kingsley Martin (born 1897), editor of the New Statesman; and Canon John Collins (born 1905) were founder members. The 1960s are remembered as the decade of ‘youthquake’ but, at the start, middle-aged and elderly radicals were in the vanguard. The young were not far behind, however. The overwhelming majority of those who marched in protest against nuclear weapons were in their teens and early twenties; many were students.
