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• discourse and anxiety about nuclear weapons it's how greenpeace started
• has not yet agreed to refuse to use nuclear weapons in situations other than self-defense
• that says the u.s can use nuclear weapons as part of discretionary

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• when you think about a polar bear on a rampage, how much destruction it could do versus what's the video of the tsar bomb when we detonated a large nuclear weapon, it's like we just are not apex predators.

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• we can somehow solve basically, our social  and psychological problems, and not destroy   ourselves with nuclear weapons, and somehow  get population under control, then we could   begin to talk about how to apportion our energy  resources correctly for perhaps, 300 years. now,  
• we've got to get our consumption under  control, and we got to make sure we don't   kill each other with nuclear weapons. and  surely, there's a way that we can figure   out how to make this last as long as we need  it mean. that was all he was saying. and yet,  

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• a lot of power a lot of economic resources nuclear weapons and is acting in a unilateral way and can be inside of

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• of war may again seem like a way to stave off  decline or collapse. at least eight countries have   stockpiled sufficient nuclear weapons to cause  major disruptions to the global climate system   with even a limited war. and three of them could  literally destroy essentially all of human and  

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• expertise on the difference between convention on nuclear weapons what are the escalation pathways what are the
• in some of the basics kind of like what nuclear weapons are uh how they're different than conventional
• because we're not just talking about the technical aspects of nuclear weapons and how they're used from a military
• briefly what let's start from the absolute basics what is a nuclear weapon and how do they work briefly
• and to give you just a little bit of context on how powerful nuclear weapons are it would have taken approximately
• there is fear you have to remember when the nuclear weapons program got started hitler was overrunning europe the even
• those factors blended together how many nuclear weapons were there in 1944
• okay um let's continue on comparing nuclear weapons to conventional weapons how big are the bombs that are being
• explosive but with a nuclear weapon you talk about tens of thousands of pounds of tnt
• weapon in the us arsenal today is 300 nuclear weapon is 300 tons and again that's a point that i think we
• hopefully we won't be using it but the technology exists in our nuclear weapons where we're dropping small suns on
• yeah that's another piece of the uh wonderful world of nuclear weapons targeting uh it's called a myrrh
• flexibility you don't want flexibility with nuclear weapons and there's a very strong one why not
• military planning purposes these small tactical nuclear weapons and the other argument was well you know it's only the
• today a lot of this rhetoric about using nuclear weapons over ukraine or in europe we wouldn't be talking about it
• years later the amount of nuclear weapons in the world is uh larger they're bigger
• have a attitude that we can use these nuclear weapons and not escalate and again proud prophet showed very clearly
• i i want to make sure that we articulate the actual risks from nuclear weapons and the impacts um
• right and so again the two key differences really with nuclear weapons dial yield i think that's critical the
• and fires from it but the vast majority energy is the shock wave nuclear weapons are very different the first
• you set off a few dozen or a few hundred nuclear weapons again a limited exchange you're going to have these hot spots all
• deployed and go off so you have that's 2 000 nuclear weapons going off in the northern hemisphere a few in the
• and the cleverness of our species in and nuclear weapons is is the pinnacle of cleverness trumping wisdom
• we're discussing you know this i grew up with the threat of nuclear weapons i knew what it would do
• are assuming the old way of targeting nucle with nuclear weapons where you're trying to maximize
• the change in our weapons mix that makes nuclear weapons more usable so those two things happen completely
• here's the next question why do we need nuclear weapons at all that's an interesting question um first
• i think that the talk about banning nuclear weapons i have sympathy for it it's a very ideological very i
• so we backed into it we stumbled into into a world with nuclear weapons and so once we were there
• that believe that there is a first use case for nuclear weapons which is first off what's the moral case for using a
• off what's the moral case for using a nuclear weapon against a non-nuclear adversary
• effects how do you justify using a nuclear weapon i've never seen a good ethical argument
• so it's almost like nuclear weapons are not usable
• what the main thing that you get from a nuclear weapon right now is the fireball which can
• penetrate and you want to disable the there's a nuclear weapon in that silo or missile in that silo that you want to
• make sure can't be launched you could fire a nuclear weapon at that vaporize that silo and disable it
• does that detonate the the opposing nuclear weapon simultaneously or not generally not um
• and in fact we say that we can use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear adversaries
• enforced says that we would use a nuclear weapon in response to a cyber attack that took down our electrical
• changes so we've escalated and put nuclear weapons into europe that
• as we discussed earlier let's say that you have decided to use a nuclear weapon to disable
• well you maybe you say well we will use tactical nuclear weapons to break up those formations so you launch
• for those nuclear weapons to stop you from using them again or in the first place so they
• for ballistic missiles only can only nuclear weapons are on ballistic missiles the the long range
• this they've never used a nuclear weapon the us
• show them we're serious i mean my god you're saying use a nuclear weapon to make a point
• so nuclear weapons are even small quote-unquote weapons are such a leap in
• that's nothing compared to what one nuclear weapon can do and when you start to look at the secondary effects so
• that we don't want to be you know that nuclear weapons should never be used but then we develop these weapon systems
• be willing to fight you conventionally we will fight you with nuclear weapons if we have to but it isn't going to be a
• and now after talking to you i actually think it's nuclear weapons are the biggest super normal stimuli

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• with electricity it had to do with nuclear weapons uh the research but that that's a separate topic

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• [00:05:31] on top of that, we came very  close to nuclear war. during the collapse   of the soviet union, there were all kinds  of orphaned nuclear weapons that if yeltsin   hadn't come in and somehow controlled all  that, there would've been warlords and  
• rogue war heads being sold to the highest  bitter, state actors, non-state actors. [00:05:54] now that situation is even worse.  there's over 6,000 nuclear weapons sprinkled   through the country of russia and if  there's some destabilization and some  
• [00:10:32] i'm pro megafauna. i'm  pro complex life, and that's what   is at risk with this football game, with  nuclear weapons going on in the background.   i'm not an expert on nuclear war or russia  or anything, but it's part of the global  

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• what happens if there's even a small scale exchange of nuclear weapons and let's you know i can think of multiple
• we've changed the us has how it thinks about tactical nuclear weapons and has expanded the arsenal and expanded
• everybody just assumed once you start slinging tactical nuclear weapons around it's going to end up going strategic
• that they will not be the first to use a nuclear weapon and is some nuances to it for instance russia has been very clear
• in stating that they will not be the first to use a nuclear weapon unless it's an existential and they've gone on
• it is willing to use tactical nuclear weapons in response to cyber attacks
• to do that so the us has just started production on the b61-2 nuclear weapons which is going to mean almost nothing to
• question sorry to interrupt why do we need more nuclear weapons we have enough in the world to destroy the world
• two prevailing schools of thought developed on nuclear weapons uh the one that most people are familiar with is
• and so that basically says the only reason you have a nuclear weapon is to keep the other guy from using it on you
• it's a school of thought that says you can use nuclear weapons they're just another weapon system it's another part
• to at least shoot down small-scale tactical nuclear weapons that scares the us quite frankly because
• if a war broke out where people start slinging nuclear weapons around even if and even the small scale exchanges some
• especially exchanges with the modern nuclear weapons mixes like the us is looking at using where you're ejecting a
• which is what even a dozen or so tactical nuclear weapons could do so