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The Persistence of the US Nuclear Deterrence Policy/Elaine Scarry

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"I think that people who practice 'game theory' and enter into what (General Lee) Butler calls 'an idiom of parlor tricks' are possibly retaining human feelings for people in their immediate families and neighborhoods but have lost the ability to understand and to admire and respect just the sheer aliveness of fellow human beings that go a little bit beyond the borders of their private property."

Elaine Scarry joins us to discuss her writing at the Boston Review, “The Extortionist Doctrine : On the persistence of U.S. nuclear deterrence policy."
Check out Elaine’s article here: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-e…ists-doctrine/
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Elaine Scarry

Elaine Scarry is Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. She is author of many books, including Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom.