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What is the difference between the nuclear weapon as it originally was and the second generation, the hydrogen bomb, et cetera?

Eric, welcome back to Chickenometry.

It's great to have you back on.

We've had three previous conversations, all of them extremely popular with our audience.

People loved it.

But the one thing that we've always felt that they've missed out is some of the conversations we've had with you in private.

We should talk about some of the conversations.

And some of the conversation we've had in private is actually about...

geopolitics, and particularly how all of that is informed by the invention of first nuclear weapons and then thermonuclear weapons.

It's interesting that as we sit down to record this, this episode might not go out for a few weeks, but as we sit down to record this, the Trump administration has just announced that it wants to do nuclear testing, again, on par with other countries is the language.