Nuclear Times, June 1983, Volume I, Number 8; The Newsmagazine of The Antinuclear Weapons Movement

31, [1] pages. Illustrations (some with color). Community Bulletin Board. Calendar. Resources. Mailing label on the back cover. Greg Mitchell (born 1947) is an American author and journalist who has written twelve non-fiction books on United States politics and history. His latest book is The Tunnels: Escapes Under the Berlin Wall and the Historic Films the JFK White House Tried to Kill. He was the editor of Editor & Publisher, which covers the news and newspaper industry. His book, The Campaign of the Century, about Upton Sinclair's run for governor of California and the rise of media politics, received the 1993 Goldsmith Book Prize for journalism. Mitchell was editor of Nuclear Times magazine (1982 to 1986), and became interested in the history of the United States' use of the atom bomb during World War II. He addressed issues related to this in a 1996 book co-written with Robert Jay Lifton, "Hiroshima in America," and a later book "Atomic Cover-up." The magazine claims to contain news, plans and accomplishment of the more than 3,000 groups in the U.S. and many more abroad. It presented a calendar of upcoming events, legislation, and other information. It claimed to provide the reader with the thinking, both philosophical and strategic, of a broad range of people, and to help put individual organization's work into the perspective of the antinuclear weapons movement as a whole. In this issue there is a focus on Direct Action and Building Resistance, and included an interview with E. P. Thompson. Presumed first edition/first printing this issue.…