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Bridgewater Review Bridgewater Review Volume 1 | Issue 2 Article 7 Dec-1982 Book Reviews Hugo D'Alarcao Bridgewater State College Charles F. Angell Bridgewater State College, [email protected] Nancy L. Street Bridgewater State College, [email protected] Recommended Citation D'Alarcao, Hugo; Angell, Charles F.; and Street, Nancy L. (1982). Book Reviews. Bridgewater Review, 1(2), 15-18. Available at: http://vc.bridgew.edu/br_rev/vol1/iss2/7 This item is available as part of Virtual Commons, the open-access institutional repository of Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. BOOK REVIEWS It is in this first part that Schell introduces "fundamental origin of the peril of human the major theme of the book: the threat of extinction by nuclear arms lies not in any The Fate of extinction of the human species. The point particular social or political circumstances is made that - of our time but in the attainment by mankind The Earth as a whole, after millenia of scientific - although scientifically speaking, progress, of a certain level of knowledge of there is all the difference in the world the physical universe," he comes close to between the mere possibility that a By Jonathan Schell paralleling the theological concept of holocaust will bring about extinction original sin, and precludes the possibility Alfred A. Knopf, N. Y., $11.95 and the certainty of it, morally they that political or social changes can eradicate are the same, and we have no choice the nuclear peril. With such simplistic but to address the issue of nuclear arguments he nears joining the bandwagon weapons as thqugh we knew for a of the antiscience. certainty that their use would put an lthough nuclear weapons have been After we are presented with a series of end to our species. A with us for 37 years and isolated voices negative arguments we are left with the have been warning that we were on an This moral equivalence of nuclear war somewhat contradictory and tantalizingly accelerated course towards annihilation, and its worst consequence underlies most vague conclusion that "the only kind of only recently have large numbers of people of the arguments presented throughout the solution ... is a global political one." throughout the world realized the imminent book. Schell then embarks upon a lengthy danger and begun to take political action to The first essay, "The Republic of Insects exploration of the moral and philosophical avert a catastrophe. and Grass," is an excellent, concise significance of the extinction of the human The consciousness of the threat posed by explanation of the nuclear weapons threat. species. At this point the book takes on the the nuclear arms race was sufficient to Unfortunately in the rest of the book the aspect of a medieval theological treatise. mobilize people into the beginnings of a author abandons his journalistic objectivity Long and convoluted disquisitions on political movement. For such a movement and takes on the role of philosopher. As a extinction may have some intellectual value to become effective, however, an consequence, his arguments are weak with but are out of place in a serious examination understanding of the nature of the threat serious flaws. of a crucial contemporary problem. and its causes must necessarily follow the The second part, "The Second Death," The second part is a well-written instinctive perception of the danger. begins with the argument that since nuclear discussion of the concept of mutually Recently several books have appeared weapons are a product of scientific assured destruction (MAD). which attempt to provide this discovery and since once a scientific fact is Having done his best to convince the understanding and to chart future courses established it cannot be unlearned, nuclear reader that the problem of nuclear weapons of action. One of the most popular of these disarmament will not erase the threat. This has most serious consequences and is is Jonathan Schell's, The Fate ofthe Earth. fatalistic approach denies the existence of insoluble by social or political means, Schell This book, which first appeared in three social and political free will and implies that in part three, "The Choice," attempts to consecutive issues of The New Yorker, social decisions are based on what is present a solution. His solution, briefly, is to consists of three independent parts. possible rather than what is desirable. eliminate national sovereignty and "create a The first part, "A Republic of Insects and With statements such as the political means by which the world can Grass," is a careful and thorough examination of what is currently known or predictable of the effects and consequences of a full-scale nuclear war. Based on governmental and scientific studies, interviews with scientists, pronouncements of government leaders, and the tragic experiences of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Schell presents compelling evidence that the dangers we face are real with drastic consequences. He forcefully demonstrates that concepts such as limited nuclear war, survivability of a nuclear attack, reasonableness of civil defense, and economic recovery from a nuclear war, are dangerous myths whose reality exists only in the words of political demagogues. He considers the possible causes of an outbreak of nuclear war and gives a serious and objective presentation of its medical, ecological, and global consequences. "1 Loue a Parade" from Boston Street Scenes By Tom Knudson, Associate Professor of Physical Education 15 arrive at the decisions that sovereign states His accommodations, we learn from the previously arrived at through war." This is novel's opening pages, extend even to like saying that the cure for cancer is Charlie Stavros who now works as Harry's immortality. It is not a solution whether one Rabbit is Rich chief assistant and whose affair with Janice believes such a nationless world to be has been covered over by the events of the desirable or not. Its achievement is a larger intervening years. Harry has had to make and harder task than removal ofthe nuclear his peace with Charlie because Charlie danger itself. Moreover, it is not a solution By John Updike knows how to sell cars; he has connections. because it avoids the questions that must be Alfred A. Knopf, $13.95 answered before a real solution is found, Yet, Harry has connections, too. As he questions such as: What are the social drives his tomato-soup red Luxury Edition political, and economic reasons for the ever Corona through Brewer, Harry comments increasing stockpiling of nuclear weapons to himself on all that he knows about this by the superpowers? What real function do eaders of Rabbit Redux will recall Pennsylvania town, which after three novels the nuclear arsenals perform? R how, at the close of that novel, Harry has become for the reader nearly as Angstrom -- unemployed, his home des­ distinctive in its landmarks, businesses, and Schell's many references to troyed by fire and a girl dead in the ashes -­ people as Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha. social/psychic nls suggest that nations face lay beside his wife Janice in a motel bed what is essentially a psychological problem. Brewer mingles old factories and hard­ Such a statement as "a society that and tried to sleep. His life had come working blue-collar labor with concrete and apart. Janice had just returned, hoping to systematically shuts its eyes to an urgent glass offices and leisure-suited business­ work out a reconciliation with Harry after peril to its physical survival and fails to take men. As America has changed, Brewer has her ~ffair with Charlie Stavros, her father's any steps to save itself cannot be called changed, and Harry has accommodated 'chief sales representative' at the used-car psychologically well" implies that the social himself to this simultaneously old and new and political health of a nation depends lot. Nelson, their son, has judged his father place with its present demands and past responsible for the death of the runaway upon its psychological stability. Ifsuch is the obligations. girl, Jill. In the motel room, "long and secret assumption, the elimination of national No one, it seems, judges Harry's past as a burrow," Harry finally sleeps. sovereignty would be somewhat akin to harshly now. A decade's passing has effaced collective psychoanalysis. Ten years later, Updike has once again the disasters and dislocations of all the brought Rabbit out of hibernation, in his deaths: his infant daughter, his parents, The author's thesis might be best mid-forties, a paunch around his middle, Fred Springer, Coach Tothero, Jill the summarized by his choice for a title. In and dwelling with his wife and mother-in-law runaway, Skeeter. The dead, however, Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary we at the Springer family home on Joseph occupy Harry's thoughts as he wonders find: Street. For now, as 'chief sales how they would regard his life. Throughout fate . .. the principle or determining representative' for Springer Toyota, Rabbit, the novel these ghosts from Rabbit's past cause or will by which things in with the timely help of the 1979 oil embargo, appear ". .. and beyond them there are general are supposed to come to be is peddling Corollas almost as quickly as myriads, whole races like the Cambodians, as they are or events to happen as they can be displayed on the lot. His that have drifted into death. He is treading they do ... whatever is destined or marriage with Janice hasarrived at a plateau on them all, they are resilient, they are decreed ... final outcome . a of mutual tolerance, if not affection. Nelson cheering him on, his lungs are burning, his predetermined state or end. is away at Kent State. Only life in his mother­ heart hurts, he is a membrane removed If the intention of the author was to in-law's house grates on him, but since from the hosts below, their filaments caress provide some guidance to the infant nuclear Bessie Springer still controls a half share of his ankles, he loves the earth, he will never disarmament movement he might have the Toyota agency, Rabbit has managed to die." Accommodated to others' deaths, chosen a different title since, as Norm accommodate himself.
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