Jonathan Schell is the Doris Shaffer Fellow at The Nation Institute and teaches a course on the nuclear dilemma at Yale. He is the author of The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence and the Will of the People, an analysis of people power, and The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger.
The path of ruling through illusion has been tried and failed. Obama must govern with a realism of the sort America has not seen for a long time.
On the campaign trail, new lies are being pumped into the political bloodstream.
Israel and the Mideast are approaching a stark choice: nuclear holocaust or a nuclear-free region.
Throughout the political sphere--in Democratic and Republican campaigns, in media coverage and pollsters' surveys--the word "change" is bubbling on people's lips. What does it really mean?
During the cold war, the driving force was the bilateral arms race; now it's proliferation.
Richard Rhodes's Arsenals of Folly, sequel to the book that defined the atomic age, captures the political struggle that brought it to an end.
The Bush Administration's failed war on terror has stoked the fires it was meant to quench. And in Pakistan, the risk of nuclear terrorism is on the rise.
America is sleepwalking into one-man rule. What can the Democrats do about it?
A heated exchange of views on Lakshmi Chaudhry's slam of Harry Potter and a more civilized exchange between Jonathan Schell and Peace Action's Kevin Martin on nuclear proliferation.


