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Scotland and the Cold War
An introduction to Scotland’s Cold War experience
Brian P. Jamison
an interesting sample of the numerous issues faced
by communities north of the Border from the close of
the Second World War until the late 1990s.
Edited by Brian P. Jamison
ISBN 0954441613 pbk £12.99 £5.00
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SCOTLAND AND THE COLD WAR is an introduction to Scotland’s Cold War experience and represents an interesting sample of the numerous issues faced by communities north of the Border from the close of the Second World War until the late 1990s. The Cold War was an event that touched every aspect of life in Scotland, and this collection does not claim to provide a definitive statement on such a vast subject area. However, with contributions based either on personal experience or scholarship, the intent is to bring segments of Scotland’s Cold War experience to light and to inspire new lines of research.
Contributors include:
Major (Retired) Alastair Campbell provides a military perspective following four tours in Germany where NATO planned to fight the forward defensive battle of Western Europe in the event of attack by the Warsaw Pact armies.
Brian P. Jamison explores the various strategies and tactics protest groups like the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the Scottish Campaign Against Trident, Greenpeace UK and Trident Ploughshares have employed to incite the removal of nuclear weapons from Scottish lochs.
Julius M. Komorowski examines what can be done with nuclear weapons, ‘these relics of the Cold War’, in a legal context.
Alastair McIntosh in a psychohistorical context argues that the Cold War was nothing new to Scotland
Rev. Alastair Ramage investigates the roles of the Churches in the peace movement.
Professor Willie Thompson investigates the importance of the Communist Party on the national map and the degree to which the CPGP leadership was wholly at the disposal of Moscow and how far it acted autonomously.
More about the author/editor
Brian P. Jamison is in the final stages of completing his PhD thesis on Scotland’s experience with the UK’s Trident II D5 nuclear deterrent. His work is concerned with the reactions of Scottish civil society to the system and the conflict between UK nuclear defence strategy and Scottish cultural/political identity. Furthermore, Jamison explores the disarmament policies of Britain’s major and minor political parties, examines the socio-economic and environmental impacts of the Trident Works Programme on the west of Scotland and Dunfermline’s loss of refitting and refuelling operations for the Vanguard class. Working with John Powles, manager of Research Collections at Glasgow Caledonian University, in late January 2003 they composed the conference Scotland’s Cold War Experience: An Introduction, and are currently in the process of establishing an archive for the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Jamison’s next line of research intends to investigate NATO expansionism and its effects on Highland communities. Brian lives with his wife and daughter in Balloch just southeast of Coulport and Faslane