Tribute to Jonathan Schell

With deep sadness we mourn the death of Jonathan Schell, Peace Leader at The Simons Foundation. Jonathan was a guiding light to Jennifer Simons and his contribution to nuclear disarmament was a lodestar in the work of The Simons Foundation. His book, "The Fate of the Earth," the definitive book on the need for nuclear disarmament, brought to the attention of the world, the dangers to humankind posed by nuclear weapons.

"The machinery of destruction is complete, poised on a hair trigger, waiting for the button to be pushed by some misguided or deranged human being or for some faulty computer chip to send out the instruction  to fire," he wrote.  "That so much should be balanced on so fine a point - that the fruit of four and a half billion years can be undone in a careless moment - is a fact against which belief rebels."  

Read more about Jonathan here.