An excellent interview Prof. Ravi Prakash Rau, a distinguished atomic physicist from Louisiana State University, published in the Wire:
"I have also looked askance at how our societies are structured in that we let courts and lawyers and ultimately a few justices decide on major issues for the entire population. Even if all justices were all-wise Solomons and Solominas, leave alone the petty partisans many are, why should other expert advice not be part of these decisions? Courts seek expert advice but I mean more, that they be dominant in those domains of even the final decisions. I do not know how societies can design for this but, certainly, what we have now is ridiculous.
Going back to nuclear weapons, a Martian viewing from the outside would find incomprehensible that a single Trump-Kim [Jong-]Un pair can unleash hundreds of warheads that could destroy all 8 billion humans, billions of other life forms and leave a radioactively saturated atmosphere and soil of a planet in nuclear winter. That we have structured things with no others, scientists among them, even at the table, just Presidents and Generals, is what is absurd, similar to the primacy given to lawyers and judges in our societies and nations".
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