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Title	:	The Fate of the Earth
Author	:	Jonathan Schell
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	November 28th 1988 by Avon Books (first published 1982)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Science. Politics. Environment. Philosophy. War

The Fate of the Earth Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 224 pages

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When Jonathan Schell heard all that loose talk about attainment of objectives in a limited nuclear war, it was too much for him. He did what all of us would like to do: he wrote a book. It's very pessimistic. The mere presence of all those weapons is enough to ensure that sometime, somewhere, someone is going to set one off. Schell makes sure all of us know the horrendous possibilities of a nuclear exchange & all the reasons for bringing such possibilities to a halt. Everyone agrees. The question is, how do we get these monsters under control?
A republic of insects & grass
The second death
The choice
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Original Title:	The Fate of the Earth
ISBN:	0380613255 (ISBN13: 9780380613250)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize Nominee for General Nonfiction (1983), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest (1982), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (1982), National Book Award Finalist for General Nonfiction (Hardcover) (1983)

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Ratings: 3.89 From 227 Users | 28 Reviews

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This was a best-seller back in the early '80s. It speculated on the likely effects on humanity and the planet in the event of nuclear war. I remember at the time being blown away by the book (no pun intended, seriously). It was a page-turner, well presented and lively, with plenty of supporting facts to back its assertions. At the time, I probably would have rated it five stars, but, honestly, I can't remember anything in it anymore except the notion that the roaches would survive, which is

Maybe this deserves better, but needed more hope.

I had to stop reading it because it gave me nightmares :(

I went through this period of being interested in the Foundations of Mathematics, and read several books on the subject. If you haven't come across one, they are full of Greek letters and odd-looking formulas. You tend to get the first major revelation round about a quarter of the way through; after a lot of preliminary character development, there is a fanfare of trumpets, and you find out that x + y = y + x, or something like that. I hear a few people at the back scoffing that they knew that

As a primer on extinction, an extended meditation on nuclear annihilation, and an outstanding example of how creative nonfiction should be written, Schell's book serves as the resource for intelligent, moral response. I read my copy with a pencil--underlining and noting. Nuclear weapons move beyond the zone of deterrence and into extinction. Therefore, Schell argues, they should not be considered warfare anymore. Rather, and here is his solution, the only sane response to their existence lies in

I read this book pretty much as soon as it was published in 1982. It was a time when there were actually conversations among supposedly lucid people - people in power - about how to plan and survive a nuclear exchange between the Cold War superpowers. His portrait of the aftermath is jarring even now, when we all think we know everything and are practically blase about the horror we as a species can bring upon ourselves.

Tough reading...very insightful, meaningful, and thought-provoking...