Carl Robichaud

And the US, of course, does proceed with this weapon, in part out of fear that if they don't, the Soviet Union will.

Oppenheimer is opposed to the use of nuclear weapons in that way, and that's why he is politically sidelined by his adversaries.

But even in the movie, you can see the emergence of these two new technologies that are really going to shape the nuclear age.

One is the H-bomb, the thermonuclear weapon, but the other is the intercontinental missile.

And in some of those visions, you can see the terror that a weapon of that sort would inspire because they move 20 times the speed of sound.

There's no defense against them.

And these are the weapons that really compress the decision-making time and put us right on the brink.

And so it's the marriage of miniaturized hydrogen bombs and intercontinental ballistic missiles that represent a step change in the level of danger to humanity.

Well, I went and worked at a couple of different think tanks and I got a fellowship first to study internationally.

I got this Watson fellowship where I could travel and study internationally and then came back and did some work at the Stimson Center and the Council on Foreign Relations and went back to graduate school because that's one of the things that Jonathan told me is if you want to have credibility on this issue, you got to know the details.

And I got a master's degree at the

at Princeton University and then went on to work at the Century Foundation where I was involved in editing some volumes.

The big debate at that time was over counterterrorism in Afghanistan as well as Iran and Iran's nuclear program.

So I helped edit some volumes and prepare some events on those.

Yeah, so they started as the 20th Century Fund, and they published books and supported scholarship, and some really important books came out through their publishing house.

And then at the end of the 20th century, they decided that they wanted to continue.

They were meant to sunset, but they decided that they had important work to continue, and so they became the Century Foundation.

They're based in New York.

They're a tiny think tank, and I think they continue to do good work.

So they were established by Andrew Carnegie to continue his philanthropic legacy.