Quote from: godlyitems on August 10, 2015, 10:33:43 AM

Twenty-nine of the nations top scientists including Nobel laureates, veteran makers of nuclear arms and former White House science advisers wrote to President Obama on Saturday to praise the Iran deal, calling it innovative and stringent.

The letter, from some of the worlds most knowledgeable experts in the fields of nuclear weapons and arms control, arrives as Mr. Obama is lobbying Congress, the American public and the nations allies to support the agreement.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/08/08/world/document-iranletteraug2015.html?_r=0

(well worth a quick read) neatly outlines the gist of the agreement and why it is good for us and the world. The signatories are not people unknown to the scientific community. On the contrary, they are mostly physicists with a list of credentials that won't quit, like ...

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The first signature on the letter is from Richard L. Garwin, a physicist who helped design the worlds first hydrogen bomb and has long advised Washington on nuclear weapons and arms control. He is among the last living physicists who helped usher in the nuclear age.

We can listen to people who are well qualified to comment on the agreement, or a raving bunch of political hacks whose only interest is to wreck Obama's presidency, and damn the damage that may result. Seems like an easy choice.

Sigh! Physicists generally know ZILCH about high level politics and how governments function and about why wars start and why they are engaged in as they are and so forth and so on. One might as well listen to Obama's campaign coach instead, "Okay now sir, smile and then LIE and then smile some more!"