Elaine Scarry

Elaine Scarry is a professor at Harvard University and the author of numerous books, including The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. Her most recent book is titled Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing between Democracy and Doom.

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In the United States, Just 1 Person Has the Power to Kill Millions of People In the United States, Just 1 Person Has the Power to Kill Millions of People

Our nuclear-weapons strategy enables one man, the president, to kill and maim an unthinkable number of people in a single afternoon.

Nov 29, 2017 / Elaine Scarry

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