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MIT Building 34 April 2, 2016 Reducing the Dangers of Nuclear War Elaine Scarry Harvard University Democracy and Nuclear Weapons Cannot Co-Exist

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MITBuilding34April2,2016

ReducingtheDangersofNuclearWar

ElaineScarryHarvardUniversity

DemocracyandNuclearWeaponsCannotCo-Exist

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Alfred Eisenstaedt,“MotherandChildinHiroshima, Japan,December1945.”GettyImages

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Meridel Rubenstein“FourElements”1993

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InjurytothePersonsandtoEarth

InternationalLawprohibitsthisinjury

InternationalLawsolvestheproblemof“statisticalcompassion”

NationalLawsolvestheproblemof“statisticalcompassion”

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NuclearWeaponsFreeZonesInternationalLawandPolicy Institution

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NuclearWeaponsFreeZonesandNuclearWeaponsStatesWiki

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JohnAinslieDisarmingTridentTimetable

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• Two brakes onwarmaking inU.S.Constitution

Firstbrake:Article1section8clause11NowarwithoutaCongressional“DeclarationofWar”

Secondbrake:SecondAmendment

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WhataretheformalfeaturesofaCongressional“DeclarationofWar”inthefivecaseswheretheU.S.hashadadeclaration?

Warof1812(withEngland)Mexican-AmericanWar1846SpanishAmericanWar1898WorldWarIWorldWarII

Whataretheformalfeaturesofpresidentialdeliberationaboutusinganuclearweapon?

TaiwanStraitsCrisis1954BerlinCrisis1959

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• CongressionalDeliberationvs.PresidentialDeliberation•• VisibletothePublic InvisibletoPublicforthirty

years•• Clearsetofsentences Noclearstatementofaction•• ConspicuouslystagedvoteNovote•• ParticipantsequalParticipantsaresubordinates•• Dissentandcontestation: Nodissent.Nocontestation.• Testing Notesting.

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• SecondBrake:TheRighttoBearArms

1Constitutionarrangesformany“interveninglayersofresistanthumanity”

2Resistanthumanity?Dosoldiersdissent?

3SecondAmendmentarrivesduringratificationofConstitution:Adistributionalrequirementcreatedduringdistributionalmoment

4Supportedbymilitaristsandpacifistsalike

5CivilstatureinU.S.ispremisedonmilitarystature15th,19th,and26Amendments

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• Doublebrakeprovidestwogatesofauthorization

• DoublelocationiswhatdifferentiatesstatutorylawfromConstitutionallaw:ConstitutionallawrequirespassagebyCongressandratificationbypopulation

• 5000amendmentsproposed;27passed

WarmakingrequirespassagebyCongressandratificationbypopulation

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ConstitutionsofOtherNuclearStates`` FrenchConstitution

Article35Article89

IndianConstitutionArticle246

RussianFederationConstitution(l993)Article102Article59

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fromElaineScarryThermonuclearMonarchy

AtthecloseoftheSecondTreatiseofGovernment(inthechapterexaminingthelegitimategroundsforrebellion),Lockequotesamemorableobservationaboutoneofhistory’styrants: “AndofCaligula...hewisht thatthepeoplehadbutoneneck,thathemightdispatchthemallatablow.” NuclearweaponsandthehighlypracticedarrangementsfortheirusehavemadeCaligula’swishcometrue:thepeopleofearthnowhavebutoneneckandcanbedispatchedallatablow.ItdoesnotmatterthatthethermonuclearmonarchswhopresideoverustodayareordinarilymuchnicerpeoplethanCaligula,foritisthenucleararchitectureitselfthatliteralizesandmonumentalizesCaligula;theindividualpersonalitiesofourmonarchs,andthealwaysamusingdifferencesamongthem,areatbestatemporarycheckonavaststructureofcrueltythatstandsreadytobeused.Itisnationalmonarchs,notterrorists,whohaveputthisinplaceandreadieditforuse,whetherbythemselvesorbystatelessactors.Anditisthesecolossalstructuresofillegitimatenon-governancethatmustbedismantled.

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TheFlooroftheWorldElaineScarry

Imaginethatthereonedaycametoexistonearth—sometimeinthefuture—asolitarycountrywithanewtechnology.Thetechnologyhasletthissolitarycountrystationadoor(ormoreprecisely,aseriesofdoors)underthefloorofeveryothercountryintheworld.

Iftheleaderofthesolitarycountryeverfeelsimperiledorimpededbyanothercountry,hecanopenthetrapdoorand,inasingleday,eliminatethepopulationofthatrivalcountry.Becausethearrangementofdoorsbeneatheachnationalfloorissectioned,theleadercanalter- nativelychoosetoeliminatejustpartoftheenemycountry,afourthofit,orathirdofit;hemightchoosetoopenthedoorsbeneaththeflooroftheopponent’smilitaryinstallationsonly,therebyeliminatingthoseinstallationsand,say,one-thirtiethofthecountry’spopulation.Asashorthand,thisingenioustechnologyandthepoliciesthatenableitsusemightbecalledtheFlexibleFloorDoctrine ....

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ArchitectCarolinaDayer’s Renderingof“TheFlooroftheWorld”

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ArchitectMagdalenaEgues’s Renderingof“TheFlooroftheWorld”

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AdrianaRossArchitect

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ArchitecturalStudentKristineProchnau’s Renderingof“Floorof theWorld”

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ScientificAmerican“ArcticBeautyinBlackandWhite:AlaskaBeforetheEffectsofGlobalWarming”8blackandwhitephotographs.

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NASA.“ClimateChange:VitalSignsofthePlanet:BeautifulEarth

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