Discusses how the Bush Administration's policy of the preemptive use of force has changed the nuclear policies of other countries and increased the risk that leaders of unstable countries or terrorrists could obtain nuclear weapons and pose a threat to the world.
Jonathan Schell, author of The Unconquerable World (0-8050-4467-4) and The Fate of the Earth among many other titles, is the Nation Institute’s Harold Willens Peace Fellow. His “Letter from Ground Zero” column appears in The Nation regularly. He also writes for Harper’s, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, and Tomdispatch.com. He is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.