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Jonathan Schell: The Fate of the Earth, The Abolition, The Unconquerable World (LOA#329) by Jonathan Schell

Jonathan Schell: The Fate of the Earth, The Abolition, The Unconquerable World (LOA#329)

By Jonathan Schell
Edited by Martin J. Sherwin

By Jonathan Schell
Edited by Martin J. Sherwin

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Apr 07, 2020 | ISBN 9781598536584

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About Jonathan Schell: The Fate of the Earth, The Abolition, The Unconquerable World (LOA#329)

75 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a collected edition of three classic accounts of our nuclear predicament and the way forward to a peaceful world, by the Rachel Carson of the antiwar movement.

Brave, eloquent, and controversial, these classic works by Jonathan Schell illuminate the nuclear threat to our civilization, and envision a way forward to peace. In The Fate of the Earth–an international bestseller that inspired the nuclear freeze movement–Schell distills the best available scientific and technical information to imagine the apocalyptic aftereffects of nuclear war. Dramatizing the stakes involved in abstract discussions of military strategy, when first published it galvanized public consciousness and changed the terms of the debate over nuclear arms. The Abolition extends this work to argue–against a complacent acceptance of “the stability of the nuclear world” and conventional theories of deterrence–that pathways to disarmament exist, and that the ultimate elimination of nuclear weapons is an achievable goal. The volume concludes with what is arguably Schell’s masterwork, The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People. A sweeping, surprisingly hopeful historical analysis of the changing nature of warfare, both nuclear and conventional, through the end of the twentieth century, it argues that war has become less and less useful as a means for achieving political ends, culminating in the mutually assured destruction of the Cold War. Describing the world-historical successes of people’s revolutions–the Gandhian defeat of British imperialism in India and the peaceful dissolution of the Soviet Union, among others–Schell envisions new political and social foundations on which to sustain a lasting peace.

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Category: Domestic Politics | World Politics | 1950 – Present Military History

Hardcover | $40.00
Published by Library of America
Apr 07, 2020 | 800 Pages | 4-7/8 x 7-7/8 | ISBN 9781598536584

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Praise

“It was during the disorienting final sprint of this arms race that Jonathan Schell produced two of the only enduring books ever written about nuclear weapons. A new edition from the Library of America testifies to their status as classics in a genre full of out-of-print artifacts from long-forgotten and acronym-laden moments in Cold War time. . . . The Fate of the Earth and The Abolition alone have lasted.” —The New Republic

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