Thermonuclear Monarchy Choosing Between Democracy and Doom

Name: Thermonuclear Monarchy Choosing Between Democracy and Doom
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ISBN: 9780393080087

ISBN-10: 0393080080

ISBN-13: 9780393080087

Edition: 2014

Authors: Elaine Scarry

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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 our 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 our…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/24/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 640
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.376
Language: English