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The New Shape of Nuclear Danger
Metropolitan Books
November 2007
On Sale: November 13, 2007
272 pages ISBN: 0805081291 EAN: 9780805081299 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
From the bestselling author of The Fate of the Earth, a
provocative look at the urgent threat posed by America’s new
nuclear policies When the cold war ended, many Americans believed the nuclear
dilemma had ended with it. Instead, the bomb has moved to
the dead center of foreign policy and even domestic scandal.
From missing WMDs to the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame,
nuclear matters are back on the front page. In this provocative book, Jonathan Schell argues that a
revolution in nuclear affairs has occurred under the watch
of the Bush administration, including a historic embrace of
a first-strike policy to combat proliferation. The
administration has also encouraged a nuclear renaissance at
home, with the development of new generations of such
weaponry. Far from curbing nuclear buildup, Schell contends,
our radical policy has provoked proliferation in Iran, North
Korea, and elsewhere; exacerbated global trafficking in
nuclear weapons; and taken the world into an era of
unchecked nuclear terror. Incisive and passionately argued,
The Seventh Decade offers essential insight into what may
prove the most volatile decade of the nuclear age.
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