Jonathan Schell
Encyclopedia
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
, whose work primarily deals with nuclear weapons.
Career
His work has appeared in The Nation, The New YorkerThe New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
, and TomDispatch. The Fate of the Earth
The Fate of the Earth
The Fate of the Earth is a 1982 book by Jonathan Schell. This "seminal" description of the consequences of nuclear war "forces even the most reluctant person to confront the unthinkable: the destruction of humanity and possibly most life on Earth". The book revitalized the anti-nuclear movement ...
received the Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
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Book Prize, among other awards, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Critics Award. He was most recently a Distinguished Fellow at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.
In the 1980s, Schell wrote a series of articles in The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
(subsequently published as The Fate of the Earth
The Fate of the Earth
The Fate of the Earth is a 1982 book by Jonathan Schell. This "seminal" description of the consequences of nuclear war "forces even the most reluctant person to confront the unthinkable: the destruction of humanity and possibly most life on Earth". The book revitalized the anti-nuclear movement ...
), which were instrumental in raising public awareness about the dangers of the nuclear arms race
Nuclear arms race
The nuclear arms race was a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War...
. 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 invasion of Iraq
2003 invasion of Iraq
The 2003 invasion of Iraq , was the start of the conflict known as the Iraq War, or Operation Iraqi Freedom, in which a combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invaded Iraq and toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein in 21 days of major combat operations...
. 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."
During his heyday at The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
, Spy
SPY
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magazine noted that his colleagues referred to him as "the incredibly boring Jonathan Schell".
Personal
He is the younger brother of Orville SchellOrville Schell
Orville Hickock Schell III is an activist and writer working on China, and is the Arthus Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York...
, former dean of the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. and current Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society
Asia Society
The Asia Society is a non-profit organization that focuses on educating the world about Asia. It has several centers in the United States and around the world Hong Kong, Manila, Mumbai, Seoul, Shanghai, and Melbourne...
in New York. He is a graduate of The Putney School
The Putney School
The Putney School is an independent high school in Putney, Vermont. It was founded in 1935 by Carmelita Hinton. It is a co-educational, college-preparatory boarding school, with a day-student component, located outside of Brattleboro, Vermont. Emily Jones is the director...
in Putney, Vermont
Putney, Vermont
Putney is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States. The population was 2,634 at the 2000 census.On December 26, 1753 Col.Josiah Willard led a proprietors' petition for a Putney charter which was issued by Governor Benning Wentworth of the New Hampshire Grants under King George II of England...
.
Selected publications
- The Village of Ben Suc (1967)
- The Military Half (1968)
- The Time of Illusion (1976)
- The Fate of the EarthThe Fate of the EarthThe Fate of the Earth is a 1982 book by Jonathan Schell. This "seminal" description of the consequences of nuclear war "forces even the most reluctant person to confront the unthinkable: the destruction of humanity and possibly most life on Earth". The book revitalized the anti-nuclear movement ...
(1982) - The Abolition (1984)
- History in Sherman Park (1987)
- The Real War (1988)
- Observing the Nixon Years (1989)
- The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons NowThe Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons NowThe Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now is a 1998 book by Jonathan Schell. The book is built on interviews with individuals who had responsibility for nuclear policy in the United States, Russia and Europe, and who came to support the global elimination of nuclear weapons...
(1998) - The Unfinished Twentieth CenturyThe Unfinished Twentieth CenturyIn the 2001 book The Unfinished Twentieth Century, author Jonathan Schell suggests that an essential feature of the twentieth century was the development of humankind's capacity for self-destruction, with the rise in many forms of "policies of extermination"...
(2001) - The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the PeopleThe Unconquerable WorldThe Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and The Will of the People is a book by Jonathan Schell published in 2003.Schell starts by discussing the cultural embeddedness of men, patriotism and death in battle...
(2003), - A Hole in the World (2004)
- The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear DangerThe Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear DangerThe Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger is a 2007 book by Jonathan Schell. It is described as a provocative book which explores the threat posed by some new nuclear policies of the United States...
(2007)
External links
- Biography from the Yale Center for the Study of GlobalizationYale Center for the Study of GlobalizationThe Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, or YCSG, is a research center at Yale University at New Haven, Connecticut. It was launched in 2001 in order to 'enrich the debate about globalization on campus and to promote the flow of ideas between Yale and the policy world.'The current director...
- Biography from The NationThe NationThe Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States. The periodical, devoted to politics and culture, is self-described as "the flagship of the left." Founded on July 6, 1865, It is published by The Nation Company, L.P., at 33 Irving Place, New York City.The Nation...
- Biography from The GlobalistThe GlobalistThe Globalist is a daily online magazine that "focuses on the economics, politics and culture" of globalization. "The Globalist" "aims to provide current and up-to-date news analysis and perspectives on wide-ranging global issues that touch all global citizens"...
- 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