`The Fate of the Earth` Revisited

Lecture and Panel Discussion at the GHI

Speakers: Jonathan Schell, Frida Berrigan (New America Foundation, New York, NY), and Philipp Gassert (University of Augsburg)

Jonathan Schell began his career at The New Yorker, where he was a staff writer from 1967 until 1987. His bestseller on the nuclear question, The Fate of the Earth (1982), which first appeared in three parts in The New Yorker, raised public awareness about the dangers of the nuclear arms race. The book was hailed by The New York Times as “an event of profound historical moment” and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Critics Award.

Schell has taught at many universities, including Princeton, Emory, New York University, Wesleyan University, and Yale. His articles on the nuclear question have appeared in The Nation, Foreign Affairs, and Harper’s Magazine. His most recent book is The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger (2007).

Co-sponsored by the New School for Social Research/Eugene Lang College, the Heinrich Böll Stiftung, and the National Security Archive, Washington, DC

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