Holger Nehring

Holger Nehring is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary European History at the University of Sheffield. He is a historian of social movements in post-second world war Western Europe and is currently researching a project on ‘Thinking of Nuclear Death: German intellectuals and the the atomic age’.

German angst and catastrophic modernity: switching off nuclear power

Germany's decision to decommission its nuclear power stations is the outcome of a half century of anxiety about technocratic modernity.

By Holger Nehring

/ 3 Jun 2011

The forgotten impact of a war that didn't happen

Nuclear weapons were at the heart of the Cold War. Yet the broader impact of the arms race on politics and society has been forgotten. This is unfortunate, argues Holger Nehring, as the impact of the shared fear of total war that the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union

By Holger Nehring

/ 30 Mar 2010