'Where do we go from Wyhl?' Transnational Anti-Nuclear Protest targeting 
European and International Organisations in the 1970s

Meyer, Jan-Henrik

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'Where do we go from Wyhl?' Transnational Anti-Nuclear Protest targeting European and International Organisations in the 1970s

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Meyer, Jan-Henrik
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Meyer, J.-H. (2014). 'Where do we go from Wyhl?' Transnational Anti-Nuclear Protest targeting European and International Organisations in the 1970s. Historical Social Research, 39(1), 212-235.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-C555-0

Abstract

While the site occupation at Wyhl in 1975 is usually considered the symbolic birthplace of the West German anti-nuclear movement, it may also serve as the starting point for a transnational history of anti-nuclear protest. Local cross-border cooperation among protesters at Wyhl deeply impressed those anti-nuclear activists in the mid-1970s who considered nuclear power a global problem and encouraged them to take their protest to the international level. The central argument of this article is that protest directed against international organizations (IOs)