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New York Times, Jan 15, 2013

To our great peril, the scientific community has had little success in
recent years influencing policy on global security. Perhaps this is because
the best scientists today are not directly responsible for the very weapons
that threaten our safety, and are therefore no longer the high priests of
destruction, to be consulted as oracles as they were after World War II.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/opinion/deafness-at-doomsday.html?emc=tnt&tntemail1=y

This is an alarming assessment of the difficulty scientists are having in
getting a hearing by policy makers on nuclear proliferation.

If we replaced nuclear proliferation with global climate change would the
message me ny different?

This is a very serious problem that we have discussed a number of times in
the past; who of our policy makers understand enough of any science to be
able to and be willing to listen to scientists and take their advice?

Martin

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