Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines the “militarization” of the language of the antinuclear issue is our conviction that the danger, the existence of which would only be denied by fools, does not arise from technology of any kind, but from particular social dynamics. It argues that the discourse must remain on the level of ethical and political theory, and not on that of technology or pseudotechnology. The book shows the West as the copresence of three distinct dynamics: capitalism, industrialization, democracy, not a geographical concept. It suggests that the great strategic interests and the objectives proper of socialism must remain primary as against the antinuclear trend. Even the pathological growth of an apocalyptic-technological fantasy does more harm than good.