The obstacles are fundamentally political. Resolve those and the military, scientific, and technical problems will look much less daunting.
Last night's paper lantern lighting ceremony in Hiroshima. Lots of wishes for peace — but how to get from here to there? The hard question.pic.twitter.com/cuIlSRzBRh
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And maybe psychological/sociological. "Us vs. them" seems to be getting worse... Cf. Scott Sagan's latest: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/ISEC_a_00284 …pic.twitter.com/l3ivSJcgOo
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It's difficult, psychologically, to give up smthg you've been told for 72 yrs "works" to keep peace in favor of smthg less tangible/certain.
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And if your career and income are predicated on the presumptive psychological/military utility of nuclear weapons, it's even harder.
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They have people there collecting and fishing out the lanterns, if that's what you're asking. They seem to have it pretty well organized.
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Great time to be there...we visited about a week after the ceremony, saw all the paper cranes. I'll be in NYC at August's end. Hope 2 C U
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The next year I won the Governor's prize in the Hiroshima Film Fest for nuclear-themed works. A comedy about the effects of radiation.
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Its complicated and it isn't.
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