Antinuclear Admirals: An Interview Study

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
This paper reports impressions from interviews with seven retired admirals and five other retired naval and marine officers who have publicly opposed nuclear weapons, in an attempt to shed light on determinants of their position. Areas explored are relations with their parental and marital families, other social reinforces, the impact of antinuclear activities on their sense of self-worth, and experiences in the services with nuclear weapons and with the military bureaucracy that weakened their commitment to it. Also explored are attitudes to the Russians and to nuclear power. Psychological factors that may inhibit the overwhelming majority of the military from becoming publicly antinuclear are considered, as are possible reasons why the sample consists almost exclusively of members of the Navy and Marine Corps.

This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: