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Throughout the entire history of the Hardcore History Podcast, we've been talking about nuclear weapons.

Whether it's on shows that we've done about nothing else but nuclear weapons,

like the destroyer of worlds, or the logical insanity and logical insanity extra shows,

the last supernova in the east show,

the Hardcore History Addendum we did with Fred Kaplan,

the many common sense shows that touched upon nuclear weapons, the changes to warfare that they've created and the opportunity that they've opened up for

dystopian outcomes that were practically

unimaginable before their invention.

If we want to think about how we're going to end up

with a Statue of Liberty in the Sand moment in our future,

well nuclear weapons would seem to be the odds-on favorite vehicle for

creating it. I can't think of a more important topic for discussion and something that should

be far more a part of our conversation at all times than it is. I think we've forgotten how it felt during the height of the Cold War

to consider the fact that you could wake up and find out that the missiles were on the way.

And then sometime after the Soviet Union fell and we entered

into that period sometimes referred to as the end of history when people sort of forgot

as we had referred to it in the Destroyer of World Show, that we

had metaphorically speaking as a civilization, a gun pointed at our head, which brings me to a new book by

investigated reporter Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie

Jacobson that she did called Nuclear War a scenario.

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