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Much more important, they gradually set forth a compelling alternative--moderate in its means and moral in its goals--to the unpalatable extremes of disarmament and massive rearmament that have dominated the public "debate" thus far. The argument goes something like this: The Jonathan Schells of the Left err in presuming an absolute choice between global peace and disarmament on the one hand, and global nuclear holocaust on the other. With the nuclear genie out of the bottle, it is all but impossible to put it back. Mankind cannot hope to "reinvent politics: to reinvent the world," as Schell proposed...
...Fate of the Earth, Schell...
...Fate of the Earth, Schell...
Strobe Talbott's review of Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth [April 19] is penetrating and evenhanded. However, Schell's argument is not that we can easily or quickly proceed to a world government; rather, it is that such a nonviolent world is the only sure way of avoiding an eventual nuclear holocaust. To make that statement is not "dreamlike and fantastic." On the contrary, as Schell points out, to imagine that we can rid the world of nuclear weapons in the present political order is the ultimate naivet...
More predictably, the right-leaning Wall Street Journal has lambasted Schell as "destructive of serious thought about how to prevent war and control the spread of nuclear arms." Especially ludicrous, the paper says, is his call for "nothing less than to reinvent politics." Cracks the Journal: "Like...