We need to keep our nation’s seat of government safe, but creating a quick-reaction force is not the right solution, says the author of this commentary.
The authors say that President Donald Trump's decision to call off a strike on Iran at the last minute may have been the right one. But years of research on valuing human lives, conducted by us and many others, make a compelling case that deciding what is proportional based on gut feelings is a profound mistake.
By Paul Slovic, University of Oregon and Amichai Cohen, Ono Academic College