ABSTRACT
Ecologist groups extend the concept of “nuclear-free” to the nuclear power plants in Europe; this option, however, has a much smaller constituency within the movement. A nuclear-free Europe is indeed possible if one draws the borderline of Europe somewhere along the Polish-Soviet frontier. The unilateral dismantling of the nuclear deterrent, as every antinuclear theorist will tell us, is based on fear. At the undeniable cost of limiting the sovereignty of others, nonetheless, they keep in check nuclear adventurers, not because they are humane but because this is in their interest. However, this is a constant source of dangerous tension, the explosive character of which is disregarded by the Eurocentric view of the antinuclear movements. The antinuclear intermezzo may be weakening, but it is not over; nor will it totally disappear from the Western context.
