"Either we will sink into a final coma and end it all or, as I trust and believe, we will awaken to the truth of our peril, a truth as great as life itself, and, like a person who has swallowed a lethal poison but shakes off his stupor at the last moment and vomits the poison up, we will break through the layers of our denials, put aside our fainthearted excuses, and rise up to cleanse the earth of nuclear weapons."
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"The Choice," The Fate of the Earth (1982)
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Jonathan Schell
Jonathan Edward Schell (August 21, 1943 – March 25, 2014) was an author and visiting fellow at Yale University, whose work primarily deals with campaigning against nuclear weapons.
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