Sam Harris
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Podcast Appearances
So perhaps you can summarize your background in this area.
How have you come to these topics?
Where were you in school?
Yeah, well, he was an amazing writer.
What year was that that you studied with him?
Well, The Fate of the Earth was really instrumental in my becoming aware of this issue, and it's so well written.
Actually, I did a book report on it, I think when I was 13.
So I came to this pretty early.
I don't know how the book got into my hands, but...
Yeah, and so really for my entire life, longer, for nearly 75 years, we've lived under the shadow of nuclear risk.
The Soviets got the bomb in 1949, which was earlier than we were expecting.
And as everyone knows, we're the only country to have used it in 1945 on August 6th on Hiroshima and August 9th on Nagasaki.
Do you have a sense of the ethics or your beliefs about the ethics there in our first and only use of these weapons?
They're treated somewhat in the film, and I could be wrong about this.