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How I Learned to Start Worrying and Loathe the Bomb

Aug 24, 202143 min
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Episode description

Agenda:

  • Weren’t nukes good for global stability? The idea of Mutually Assured Destruction
  • Game Theory and the First Strike problem of most nuclear weapons
  • The Dr. Strangelove scenario
  • Were there close calls? Yes, here are all of them
  • Also, the broken arrow problem
  • Can you actually get rid of nukes? Probably not….
  • ...but can you get rid of the first strike problem? Probably!
  • The magic of stealth boomer submarines
  • Fmr. SecDef William J Perry’s modest proposal
  • How would you get this done? Who do you lobby?


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