February 13, 2006
Preventing nuclear war:
Now here's an achievement that definitely deserves recognition, I'd say. Robert Jervis, the Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Affairs at Columbia University, is set to be awarded $20,000 by the National Academy of Sciences in America for carrying out psychological research that has helped prevent nuclear war.
There must be a few people working towards such ends because apparently this award is made every three years! A press release says Jervis earned this year's prize "for showing, scientifically and in policy terms, how cognitive psychology, politically contextualized, can illuminate strategies for the avoidance of nuclear war". He'll receive the award at a ceremony in Washington on April 23rd.
Link to the National Academy of Sciences.
Link to interview with Jervis.
