{"id":4096,"date":"2007-12-05T00:56:49","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T07:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/05\/jonathan-schell\/"},"modified":"2007-12-05T09:52:39","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T16:52:39","slug":"jonathan-schell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/05\/jonathan-schell\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Schell"},"content":{"rendered":"[audio:http:\/\/wiredispatch.com\/charles\/12-03awjonathanschell.mp3]\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Seventh-Decade-Nuclear-American-Project\/dp\/product-description\/0805081291\/antiwarbookstore\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51Zg12Hs-KL._AA240_.jpg\" \/><\/a>Jonathan Schell, columnist for the <em>Nation <\/em>and author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fate-Earth-Abolition-Stanford-Nuclear\/dp\/0804737029\/antiwarbookstore\"><em>The Fate of the Earth<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Seventh-Decade-Nuclear-American-Project\/dp\/product-description\/0805081291\/antiwarbookstore\"><em>The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger<\/em><\/a>, discusses his view that the people of earth are in great danger from nuclear weapons, his fear of Iran&#8217;s nuclear program and belief that bombing them is the worst way to keep them from making nukes, the theory of mutual assured destruction as applied to Iran, the call for a &#8220;preemptive&#8221; first strike on China back in the 60s and the U.S. and USSR&#8217;s pledge to disarm their nukes under the Non-Proliferation Treaty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wiredispatch.com\/charles\/12-03awjonathanschell.mp3\"><strong>MP3 here<\/strong><\/a>. (19:55)<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Schell is the author of <em>The Fate of the Earth<\/em>, among other books, and the just-published <em>The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger<\/em>. He is the Harold Willens Peace Fellow at The Nation Institute, and a visiting lecturer at Yale University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Nukes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4096"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}