A Legacy of Reckless Decision Making
For decades, leaders have used the nuclear threat to consolidate power at home—even when it is bad for national security.
Noam Chomsky is the Institute Professor and a professor of linguistics, emeritus, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of numerous books, including On Language and On Anarchism, and a co-author of The Chomsky-Foucault Debate, among many other books. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.
For decades, leaders have used the nuclear threat to consolidate power at home—even when it is bad for national security.