- Nuclear warfare, Nuclear disarmament, Deterrence (Strategy), Atomic warfare
Examines the biological, political, social, and moral consequences of nuclear warfare and asks how such a holocaust might be prevented.
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Epic, earnest, grave and classical in form.
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Jonathan Schell
- First published
- 1982
- Pages
- 244
- Publisher
- Michel, Picalar in association with Jonathan Cape, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- French, English, German
- ISBN
- 9780896213807
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Jonathan Edward Schell (August 21, 1943 – March 25, 2014) was an American author and visiting fellow at Yale University, whose work primarily dealt with campaigning against nuclear weapons. **Source**: [Jonathan Schell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Schell) on Wikipedia.
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