The Unfinished Twentieth Century: The Crisis of Weapons of Mass Destruction by Jonathan Schell

ISBN: 9781859844939

Verso, 13 December 2003

Paperback, 144 pages

In this work, Jonathan Schell, the author of The Fate of the Earth, proposes that the defining characteristic of the twentieth century was the uncontrolled acceleration of humankind’s capacity for self-destruction, manifested in ‘policies of extermination’, which culminated in the construction of the species-threatening nuclear arsenals of the Cold War.”