The Abolition

Jonathan Schell

'Extinction threatens not so much each person's life as the meaning of our lives. It threatens life with meaninglessness as individual death never can. In doing so, it not only encompasses all human life but reaches deep in to each life, requiring each of us to make this business his own.' In his recent work The fate of the Earth, Jonathan Schell gave the definitive account of the nuclear predicament. Now, turning from an analysis of the problem to its solution, he offers a way out - a path that the world might follow to full nuclear disarmament.