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March 27, 2014

Journalist, Anti-Nuclear Activist Jonathan Schell Dead at 70 
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And the journalist, author and activist Jonathan Schell has died at the
age of 70. A leading advocate for nuclear disarmament, Schell's
bestselling book, "The Fate of the Earth," is recognized for helping
spark the anti-nuclear movement of the early 1980s. Speaking to
Democracy Now! in 2007, Schell said a nuclear-free world is an
achievable goal.

Jonathan Schell: "If we had a president who was dedicated to this aim, I
think it could become a reality. The problems — it's not like
global warming, where you perhaps have to change the whole way that we
live on a global basis. We know how to get rid of these things. Already,
we've come down about halfway since the height of the Cold War. We just
have to keep going in that direction. It's a tremendous task, but it's a
notably doable one."

Schell was a longtime writer for The Nation magazine. In a tribute, The
Nation editor Katrina vanden Huevel said: "The power and persuasiveness
of so much of Jonathan Schell's work came not only from his elegant
style, clarity of analysis and powerful logic but also in the enduring
belief that there is no idea so powerful as a moral one."

 

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