The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger (American Empire Project) - Softcover

Schell, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805088660 ISBN 13: 9780805088663

Publisher: Metropolitan Books, 2008

Synopsis

From the bestselling author of The Fate of the Earth, a provocative look at the urgent threat posed by America's new nuclear policies.

When 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.

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About the Author

Jonathan Schell (1943-2014) was a reporter and writer whose work focused on foreign policy. He was The Nation Institute's Harold Willens Peace Fellow. Schell's "Letter from Ground Zero" column appeared in The Nation regularly, and he also wrote for Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, and Foreign Affairs. He was the author of The Unconquerable World and The Fate of the Earth among more than a dozen other titles.

Edition details

• Publisher: Metropolitan Books
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805088660
• ISBN 13: 9780805088663
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272