The Seventh Decade

The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger

Author	Jonathan Schell
Publisher	Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Henry Holt & Company
Publication date	November 2007
Pages	272pp
ISBN	978-0-8050-8129-9
OCLC	122701842
Dewey Decimal	355.02/170973 22
LC Class	U264.3 .S43 2007

The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger is a 2007 book by Jonathan Schell. It is described^[by whom?] as a provocative book which explores the threat posed by some new nuclear policies^[which?] of the United States.[1][2][3]

Schell argues that "a revolution in nuclear affairs has occurred under the watch of the Bush administration", including a historic embrace of a first-strike policy and the development of new generations of nuclear weapons. Schell says that this policy has provoked weapons proliferation in Iran, North Korea, and elsewhere; accelerated global trafficking in nuclear weapons; and advanced nuclear terrorism.[1][4]

References

1. Walker, Martin (November 25, 2007). "Smoking Guns and Mushroom Clouds - Books About Nuclear Proliferation by Jonathan Schell and Richard Rhodes - Book Review". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-11-12.
2. Freedman, Lawrence D. (May–June 2008). "Review of The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger". Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 2008-09-06. Retrieved 2008-11-12.
3. Miles, Jim (February 11, 2008). "Book Review: The Seventh Decade". Political Affairs Magazine. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
4. The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger at Powells.com

Further reading

• Allison, Graham (9 August 2004). Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe. New York, New York: Times Books. ISBN 978-0-8050-7651-6.
• Levi, Michael (2007). On Nuclear Terrorism. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-02649-0.
• Ferguson, Charles D., and William C. Potter, with Amy Sands, Leonard S. Spector and Fred L. Wehling (2004). The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism. Monterey, California: Center for Nonproliferation Studies. ISBN 1-885350-09-0.