Volume 31, Number 10 · June 14, 1984
Nuclear Fantasies
By Lord Zuckerman
The Abolition
by Jonathan Schell
Knopf, 173 pp., $11.95
Weapons and Hope
by Freeman Dyson
Harper and Row, 340 pp., $17.95
The Illogic of American Nuclear Strategy
by Robert Jervis
Cornell University Press, 197 pp., $19.95
Some two years ago Jonathan Schell, a staff writer on The New Yorker, caused a considerable stir with The Fate of the Earth, [1] a book he had written with the passion of a man who had unexpectedly become aware of a hideous prospect which neither he nor the ordinary American citizen had apparently grasped, before—even though it had been expounded for well over two decades in book after book, popular and specialist, as well as in widely distributed United Nations publications.
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