JB14684 Alfred A. Knopf New York, New York, U.S.A. 1984 First Edition Dust Jacket Very Good Remainder Hard Cover Very Good Grey paper on boards, black cloth on spine. Volume has light edgewear. Remainder mark bottom page edges. Jacket is lightly worn, rubbed. Now in clear cover. "In his recent work, The Fate of the Earth, Jonathan Schell gave the definitive account of the nuclear predicament. Now, turning from an analysis of the problem to its solution, he offers a way out - a path that the world might follow to full nuclear disarmament. ... It is slowly becoming clear that what was once, merely a possibility - a doomsday machine - is now a fact of our existence. Granted that this is so, is it still possible for us to imagine that this machine - which can be set off by an accident, by a mistake, by a misunderstanding, a miscalculation, or a moment of insanity on the part of one of our leaders - will remain eternally within an inch of exploding and yet will never explode? Can we truly believe that the concept of 'deterrence' alone will protect the earth, not merely for forty years, but forever? It is a belief that is hard to defend with conviction. In this electrifying book, Jonathan Schell makes a proposal that may well point the way out of what has so far looked like a tunnel to nothingness. ... It is a seemingly impossible book: a clear-eyed and rational look at our current situation, which amazingly manages to offer us hope $12.00USD
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