--- description: Elaine Scarry, who teaches at Harvard, is the author of Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Elaine Scarry ## Elaine Scarry Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close _Elaine Scarry, who teaches at Harvard, is the author of_ Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom_._ ## Elaine Scarry Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Aug 5, 2014 ### [Why We Must Disarm the U.S.'s Unprecedented Nuclear Arsenal](https://time.com/3080077/why-we-must-disarm-the-u-s-s-unprecedented-nuclear-arsenal/) The potential for so vast a massacre has never before existed. [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/elaine-scarry/","name":"Elaine Scarry"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/elaine-scarry/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/elaine-scarry/"},"name":"Elaine Scarry","jobTitle":null,"description":"Elaine Scarry, who teaches at Harvard, is the author of Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom.","url":"https://time.com/author/elaine-scarry/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```