Jonathan Schell

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Jonathan Schell (b. 1943) is a progressive author and professor. His work has appeared in The Nation, The New Yorker, and TomDispatch. He is the author of The Village of Ben Suc (1967), The Military Half (1968), The Time of Illusion (1976), The Fate of the Earth (1982) (ISBN 0-394-52559-0), The Abolition (1984), History in Sherman Park (1987), The Real War (1988), Observing the Nixon Years (1989), The Gift of Time (1998), The Unfinished Twentieth Century (2001), A Hole in the World (2004) and The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger (2007), among others.

In the 1980's, Schell wrote a series of articles in the The New Yorker (subsequently published as The Fate of the Earth), which were instrumental in raising public awareness about the dangers of the nuclear arms race. He has been a persistent advocate for disarmament, and a world free of nuclear weapons.

In 2002 and 2003, Schell was a persistent critic of the planned invasion of Iraq. He has since commented, "There doesn't seem to be a rush to find the people who were right about Iraq and install them in the mainstream media."^[1]

He is the younger brother of Orville Schell.^[2]

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• Biography
• 2007 Video Interview with Jonathan Schell about "The Seventh Decade" on The Alcove with Mark Molaro
• The Gift of Time
• Smoking Guns and Mushroom Clouds

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