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...ABOLITION by Jonathan Schell; Knopf; 173 pages...
Unfortunately, Dyson, like Jonathan Schell and other writers, has not been able to answer the question of what will insure that nuclear weapons, once eliminated, will not be re-introduced--either by one of the superpowers or by some terrorist group. But Dyson does offer a very promising suggestion, one reflected in his book's title. He believes that the successful elimination of nuclear armaments must take on the semblance of a cause; it must become a heartfelt commitment, similar to the cause of abolition in the 18th and 19th centuries...
Still, Dallek's psychoanalytic approach is not without merit. In describing the Reagan symbolism, Dallek has hit upon the political nerve that makes him in some ways the Jonathan Schell of anti-Reaganism. Dallek, like the antinuke writer, is trying to assess the psychological impact of a horrible danger--in this case, Reagan's policies. Moreover, like Schell, Dallek describes in encyclopedic detail the features of his awful portrait of the Reagan phenomenon--a survey which reveals journalists and pundits sometimes shocked, sometimes disbelieving, and sometimes simply sardonically amused. The value of the Dallek survey is that, like Schell...
...been witty, controversial, and occasionally profound as it attempted to revive the essay from and apply it to intriguing, off-beat subjects such as the ethos of Thanksgiving or the politics of funeral homes. Kinsley delighted in using his "The Easy Chair" column to lambaste sacred cows, including Jonathan Schell just after Schell had written The Fate of the Earth and was considered an untouchable prophet...
...State Department seems to be unaware of the scope of the illicit deals. "We have heard these rumors of U.S.-supplied restricted military items getting to Iran for years," says Barbara Schell, the desk officer responsible for Iran, "but there is no proof." American diplomats insist that they do not secretly condone the shipment of arms to either of the belligerents in the three-year-old Iran-Iraq...