Jonathan Schell The Fate of Earth
The book written by Jonathan Schell in 1982, The Fate of Earth, provides a seminal description of the effects that could face the earth following the adaption and use of nuclear war facilitated by nuclear weapons. The author provides extensive reasoning that even the most reluctant person to confront the unthinkable. The book elaborates on the possibility of the destruction of humanity and life on earth by nuclear weapons. The author attempts to portray the dangers of nuclear weapons through the elaboration of the extreme dangers and total absurdity associated with nuclear weapons and nuclear technology. The book plays a significant role in facilitating the containment of the use of nuclear weapons, especially between the united states and the Soviet Union in the 1980s during the cold war period that persisted at the time.
Schell’s book plays an effective role in elaborating on the dangers and total absurdity of nuclear weapons. The boo plays a significant role in campaigning against nuclear weapons following the fact that it was written at a time of intense arms race that saw the development of nuclear weans by the opposing armies. The author elaborates on the need to think about the dangerous effects of nuclear weapons through elaborating on the effects of radioactive fallouts that rai from the sky in the form of the dark brown sky. The author consequently elaborates on the need to think extensively on the effects of nuclear weapons before engaging in nuclear warfare. The book is effective, following the fact that it elaborates on the adverse effects associated with nuclear weapons. The book elaborates that nuclear weapons do pose not only the threat of death but also the threat of death.
The book elaborates that nuclear weapons are not only harmful to the living human generations, but also the past and future generations. Nuclear weapons, according to Schell’s, could lead to the termination of the memories of everything that ever was. The book further elaborates on the fate of the earth as a result of nuclear weapons; humanity is faced with a mystery. The author seeks to convince the readers through the assertion that nuclear weapons would threaten not only human lives, but also the entire meaning of the meaning of human life. Although there could be various ways in which human lives could end, the book stresses that there is no other way that could be as far-reaching in human lives as nuclear weapons.
The book stresses the dangerous effects of the nuclear through elaborating that the longer that humanity continues living under the shadow of nuclear weapons, the more the human strength and imagination required to move it is drained. The author elaborates on the adverse effects of nuclear weapons through the elaboration that a society that accepts the threat of the destruction from nuclear weapons ultimately finds it difficult to act on lesser ills. He elaborates that this is by the fact that a society cannot be for life and against life at the same time. The author elaborates that through entertaining the presence of nuclear weapons, individuals slowly become accustomed and used to the idea of death. Nuclear weapons act as a slow introduction to the idea of separation from life and ushers in the preparedness for the end of humanity.