The unfinished twentieth century / Jonathan Schell.
Material type: TextPublisher: London ; New York : Verso, 2001Description: xiv, 104 pages ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1859847803
- 9781859847800
- Unfinished 20th century
- 341.734
- JZ5665 .S34 2001
- JX1974.7 .S34 2001
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-104).
The unfinished twentieth century -- The pitiless crowbar of events.
Discusses how the nuclear build-up of the twentieth-century poses a new threat for the twenty-first century.
"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." "Schell examines the legacy this leaves for the new millennium: the more than 30,000 nuclear weapons that remain in existence, the crisis of nuclear arms control that has arisen with the unraveling of the ABM treaty, the stalemate of the START talks, the attractive illusion of missile defense, the arrival of nuclear weapons in South-Asia, and the threat of their spread to East Asia and the Middle East. Schell suggests that the world now faces a difficult but inescapable choice between the abolition of all nuclear weapons and their rapid proliferation as nuclear technology and materials seep around the world."--BOOK JACKET.
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