The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now

Schell, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 1862072302 / ISBN 13: 9781862072305

Published by Granta, 1998

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Paperback. Binding sound, text clean, light shelfwear.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now
• Publisher: Granta
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1862072302
• ISBN 13: 9781862072305
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

Schell has now produced a work of equal - or greater - historical significance to his earlier work. In a series of conversations with officials as diverse as Vietnam-era Defence Secretary Robert S. McNamara, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, and the last commander of the Strategic Air Command, General George Lee Butler, Schell finds support for the abolition of nuclear weapons in the most unlikely places; among the very generals and politicians whose actions and policies brought us repeatedly to the brink of nuclear war. Writing in a spirit of optimism and hope, Schell identifies an approach, which he terms 'the horizontal path', to nuclear disarmament. He calls on us all 'to snap out of our cold-war trance, end our forced cohabitation with horror, and take the step that alone can free us from nuclear danger and corruption, namely the abolition of nuclear weapons'.

About the Author

Jonathan Schell is one of the major American thinkers of our age. A New Yorker writer for more than twenty years, his groundbreaking works include 'The Village of Ben Suc', an account of the destruction of a Vietnamese village by American forces; The Time of Illusion, on the crisis of the constitution during the Nixon years; and The fate of the Earth. He was also a columnist for Newsday and has taught at Harvard, Princeton and New York University.