Dr. Ivana Hughes

But now we have a war with Iran that seems to be brewing.

And between the America-Israeli-Iran kind of triad-

All of these countries seem to have some version of nuclear power.

I mean, obviously we don't have full transparency on what that looks like, but that conflict in particular is that of supreme concern for you right now?

It's different than like the gun argument because people will say like, oh, a good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun.

And whether you subscribe to that philosophy or not, I can understand the point.

Like if I'm on the train with my wife and some crazy guy is attacking us, pointing a gun at us, and someone shoots that guy, I'm not going to be that mad about it.

You know, like, of course, it's a tragedy, but at the same time, my life was in danger and now it's not.

So it's OK.

But a good guy with a nuke

doesn't stop a bad guy with a nuke because the nuclear bombs still go off and then it still results in some type of global calamity.

Sometimes it's a fun experiment that I like to think about because I love ancient civilizations and ancient technology.

Like, oh, how did they build the pyramid?

Stuff like that.

I find it very fun.

But I like to imagine, what if human beings existed 2 billion years ago?

And what if we developed similar type of societies and we developed nuclear weapons?

And we destroyed it all.

It's possible.

And that the entirety of that existence of, you know, humanity's first stint just got washed away by the sands of time and ice ages and meteors.