Defense Secretary Robert MacNamera observed that our nuclear policy has been lucky rather than smart.

The world needs wise leaders and we do not have them.

I invite you to see this extensive conversation between John Mecklin who is retiring from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists this month and Slate’s national  affairs editor Troy Farah.  I met John Mecklin when he was a reporter at the Houston Post.

I was impressed with the knowledge and enlightenment that both gentlemen have shown here.

What we face now is more complex that bringing about military victory over the Axis Powers.  We face poverty, artificial intelligence, war, the greatest wealth concentration in human history and other major difficulties. 

The US will celebrate Juneteenth Day tomorrow.  We shall overcome. Humans have the power to enable everyone to walk in broad sunlit uplands.

Sincerely,

Ed

Risk of nuclear catastrophe is worse than ever. We can change that.

Editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists says the doomsday threat is real — but human goodness will win out

By Troy Farah  National Affairs Editor