From the bestselling author of The Fate of the Earth, a provocative look at the urgent threat posed by America's new nuclear policiesWhen the cold war ended, many Americans believed the nuclear dilemma had ended with it. Instead, the bomb has moved to the dead center of foreign policy and even domestic scandal. From missing WMDs to the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame, nuclear matters are back on the front page. In this provocative book, Jonathan Schell argues that a revolution in nuclear affairs has occurred under the watch of the Bush administration, including a historic embrace of a first-strike policy to combat proliferation. The administration has also encouraged a nuclear renaissance at home, with the development of new generations of such weaponry. Far from curbing nuclear buildup, Schell contends, our radical policy has provoked proliferation in Iran, North Korea, and elsewhere; exacerbated global trafficking in nuclear weapons; and taken the world into an era of unchecked nuclear terror. Incisive and passionately argued, The Seventh Decade offers essential insight into what may prove the most volatile decade of the nuclear age.

A landmark collection of writings spanning the career of a renowned journalist includes his dispatches from Vietnam, his excoriating account of Pentagon politics, his apocalyptic vision of nuclear war, and his coverage of issues of peace, religion, and class. Original.

In a final testament, the late senator argues that before humanity can resolve the world's global challenges, an understanding of sovereignty must be adopted by acknowledging the primacy of the individual while strengthening international law.

A writer for Harper's and The Nation illuminates the limitations of violence in modern human history and reveals vibrant alternative threads of non-violence accompanying all the major violent wars and revolutions of the last three centuries. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

The acclaimed journalist and current peace and disarmament correspondent for The Nation surveys the post-9/11 landscape for shifts in culture and public policy, warning that despite the threat of terrorism, citizens must continue to be vigilant about challenging their leaders and upholding their rights. Original.

Product Description: Jonathon Schell suggests that the essential story of the twentieth century was the gigantic development of humankind’s capacity for self-destruction.In this work, Jonathan Schell, the author of The Fate of the Earth, proposes that the defining characteristic of the twentieth century was the uncontrolled acceleration of humankind's capacity for self-destruction, manifested in 'policies of extermination', which culminated in the construction of the species-threatening nuclear arsenals of the Cold War...read more

Product Description: Schell is writing in time, placing events in their historical context and casting an eye to the future. Another thread that runs through the book is the "virtual takeover of politics by the burgeoning techniques of communication." Schell chronicles the changes engendered by modern methods of mass communication and the dangers posed by the passive system of representation these methods encourage...read more

Discusses how the nuclear build-up of the twentieth-century poses a new threat for the twenty-first century. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Now combined in one volume, these two books helped focus national attention in the early 1980s on the movement for a nuclear freeze. The Fate of the Earth painted a chilling picture of the planet in the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust, while The Abolition offered a proposal for full-scale nuclear disarmament...read more

Provides an indepth look at the Vietnam War, from its earliest days through its military operations, with an exploration of the facts as to how the United States originally got involved. Reprint.

The author of The Fate of the Earth draws together the recommendations of such political figures as Robert S. McNamara and Mikhail Gorbachev to present a hopeful plan for the abolition of the world's nuclear weapons. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

The author of The Fate of the Earth draws together the recommendations of such political figures as Robert S. McNamara and Mikhail Gorbachev to present a hopeful plan for the abolition of the world's nuclear weapons. 12,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

Provides a week-by-week account of the Vietnam/Watergate era

Describes the effects of a full-scale nuclear war, traces the history of the development of nuclear energy, and discusses what can be done to prevent self-extinction of humankind

Offers on overview of the Vietnam War, describes the destruction of a Vietnamese village, and examines the effect of American bombing

In interviews form the basis for a study of voting and the nation

Provides a lucid analysis of the issues that need to be resolved and the steps that need to be taken to eliminate the possibility of nuclear war

An analytical account of the nation's political life and key related events and presidential activities during the Nixon years, ascribing to them a logic, coherence, and meaning not discernable at the time