The Seventh Decade - The New Shape of Nuclear Danger - The American Empire Project

In this provocative book, bestselling author Schell argues that a revolution in nuclear affairs occurred under the watch of the Bush administration. Far from curbing nuclear buildup, he argues, this radical policy has provoked a proliferation of global trafficking in nuclear weapons. At the height of the Cold War, Schell's seminal The Fate of Earth awakened the public as never before to the reality of the nuclear peril. Now, he delineates the fearful shape that danger has unexpectedly assumed in the 21st century. Schell addresses the fundamental questions: How and why has nuclear danger revived? Where are we heading? What can be done?...