The Nuclear Mentality: An Outgrowth of the Masculine Mentality

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  • Diana Russell Mills College

Abstract

Evidence will be offered in support of the thesis that nuclear war is the ultimate act of violence. Since men in patriarchal culture have been and continue to be the perpetrators of the large majority of violent acts, it is no surprise that men would be more willing than women to risk initiating this ultimate form of violence. The same factors that account for the greater willingness of many men to behave violently in personal situations likely also account for the nuclear mentality—a perverted outgrowth of this culture's notion of masculinity.

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1987-04-01

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Original Research