80 Years of Nuclear Weapons

Episode #228

This week, Bill and Phil reflect on the 80th anniversary of the creation of nuclear weapons, then ponder what history and historical analogies can teach us about our modern world.

Links related to this week’s episode:

• “What Trump Doesn’t Understand About Nuclear War” by Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic

• “The Nuclear Club Might Soon Double” by Ross Andersen in The Atlantic

• “Damn You All to Hell!: How Hollywood taught a generation to fear nuclear catastrophe” by Tom Nichols in The Atlantic

• “The President’s Weapon: Why does the power to launch nuclear weapons rest with a single American?” by Tom Nichols in The Atlantic

• “Why Compare the Present to the Past?” by Ivan Kastev in Foreign Policy

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