#330 — The Doomsday Machine

Sam Harris speaks with Carl Robichaud about the ongoing threat of
nuclear war. They discuss the film "Oppenheimer," the ethics of
dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the false
lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the history and future of
nuclear proliferation, the logic of deterrence, cyber
vulnerabilities, the history of de-escalation, the war in
Ukraine, war games, the nuclear taboo, growing tensions between
the U.S. and China, artificial intelligence, getting to nuclear
zero, the role for private citizens in mitigating nuclear risk,
the Longview Nuclear Risk Policy Fund
(https://www.longview.org/fund/nuclear-weapons-policy-fund/), and
other topics.


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