ABSTRACT
The critical arguments presented by the German peace movement originate in some very diverse sets of attitudes. In an attempt to demonstrate the earnestness of their convictions and, as their immediate aim, to prevent deployment of new missiles, many in the peace movement have believed it right to employ methods of "nonviolent resistance", as they call it. The conditions Theodor Ebert describes as being necessary for the realization of social defense ultimately require even of peacetime society a level of cohesion that could be achieved only at the risk of "militarization". Ecology, rejection of technological progress, Third World policy, and the peace movement are all closely connected. Another victim of the peace movement's lack of a sense of reality has been awareness of the political, military, and ideological threat posed by Soviet Communism. The most important impulse, however, has come from the peace movement's doubts about the credibility and effectiveness of deterrence.
