Thermonuclear Monarchy - Elaine Scarry

Thermonuclear Monarchy
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Autor: Elaine Scarry

 Wydawnictwo: W.W. Norton Company
ISBN: 9780393080087
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Oprawa: twarda
Stron: 592
Data wydania: 2014-03-01
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During his impeachment proceedings, Richard Nixon boasted, "I can go into my office and pick up the telephone and in twenty-five minutes seventy million people will be dead." In this incisive, masterfully argued new book, award-winning social theorist Elaine Scarry demonstrates that the power of one leader to obliterate millions of people with a nuclear weapon - a possibility that remains very real even in the wake of the Cold War - deeply violates American constitutional rights and is fundamentally at odds with the principles of social contract. When a leader can single-handedly decide to deploy a nuclear weapon, we live in a state of "thermonuclear monarchy" not democracy. By reasserting the American Constitution, nuclear weapons can be abolished, thermonuclear monarchy can end, and the safety of the earth can be secured. A few years ago General Lee Butler, former head of the U.S. Strategic Command, condemned the faith in nuclear weapons to which his life had been wrongly dedicated and the breathtaking audacity in maintaining them when we should stand trembling in the face of our folly and united in our commitment to abolish its most deadly manifestations. In this fascinating study, Elaine Scarry adds rich historical, philosophical, literary, and legal depth to Butler s grim warnings, with novel and provocative insights. That we have escaped disaster so far is a near miracle. Scarry s remarkable contribution should inspire us to abolish this colossal folly. --Noam Chomsky"

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Elaine Scarry