Thermonuclear monarchy : choosing between democracy and doom /

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 right...

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Main Author: Scarry, Elaine
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
Edition:First Edition.
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