Better Active than Radioactive! Anti-Nuclear Protest in 1970s France and West Germany by Andrew S. Tompkins (review)

[...]quite recently, the social movements of the 1970s had been studied almost exclusively by social scientists who zealously classified those movements in terms of the “single issue” each one addressed, and carefully compared distinct national cases. [...]the social movements of the 1970s came to be seen as disconnected from one another and narrowly focused on “quality of life” issues. By emphasizing connections between antinuclear protest in a pair of countries that use nuclear energy very differently—as of 2015, France produced 76.9 percent of its energy at nuclear power stations, while the German government had ordered its nine remaining reactors to close—Tompkins challenges the idea that these divergent trajectories reflect distinct, national antinuclear movements.