“That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.”
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One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.
I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.
Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.
I can't predict the future.
