Eric Weinstein

Yeah.

I mean, the Soviets, of course, were slightly late to the game.

father of that bomb.

And of course, they had to go big or go home.

So they did the Tsar Bomb.

And the Tsar Bomb, it's in Novo Zemlya.

new new new land new land new land yeah and this was at a scale that wasn't conceivable i i wish i had the the american comparable device was this thing called castle bravo which was way bigger than we had expected we didn't know how well we could control it but if if i've played on the simulators all of these concentrated cities are just instantly uninhabited

Well, my understanding is that the hydrogen ones are actually cleaner.

You really have gamma radiation in the form of photons that are very hard to guard against.

The other ones have these radioactive isotopes that linger on for forever.

I've never really cared that much about the post-war scenarios.

My feeling is that once you get going, everything that you know about life as we've led it is gone.

Even if it didn't.

You're talking about setting back everything that we know of as modern life to levels that I don't know whether there's subsistence living or hunter-gathering or somebody's got some crazy compound, but I'm not going there.

It's too much.

And by the way, there's a comparable version of this for pandemic.

And we're talking about playing with things where we're just not.

If you saw what happened with COVID, it just took over the planet.

What conversation are we even having?

These people are nuts, Francis.