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Nuclear Weapons, Nonproliferation v. Proliferation

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Weapons

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Nonproliferation

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Nuclear_Nonproliferation

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Proliferation

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Nuclear_Proliferation

In 2007, the late Jonathan Schell spoke presciently about the relationship between nuclear weapons and climate change:

“When I wrote The Fate of the Earth in 1982, I said that, first and foremost, nuclear weapons were an ecological danger. It wasn’t that our species could be directly wiped out by nuclear war down to the last person. That would only happen through the destruction to the underpinnings of life, through nuclear winter, radiation, ozone loss.

There has been an oddity of timing because when the nuclear weapon was invented, people didn’t even use the word ‘environment’ or ‘ecosphere.’ The environmental movement was born later. So in a certain sense the most urgent ecological threat of them all was born before the context in which you could understand it. The present larger ecological crisis in that context.

In other words, global warming and nuclear war are two different ways that humanity threatens to undo the natural underpinnings of human, and of all other, life... we may be in a better position today because of global warming, to grasp the real import of nuclear danger.”

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fate_of_the_Earth

• http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/issues/schell.pdf

• A Horror Beyond Comprehension - https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/06/specials/schell-fate.html

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