Sam Harris

This really is a film that benefits from the big screen.

We discuss the ethics of dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and some of the false lessons we learn there, the history and the future of nuclear proliferation, the logic of deterrence, our vulnerabilities to cyber attack, the history of de-escalation, the war in Ukraine,

war games, the taboo around using nuclear weapons, growing tensions between the U.S.

and China, artificial intelligence, getting to nuclear zero, the role of private citizens in mitigating nuclear risk, and finally Longview Philanthropy's Nuclear Risk Policy Fund, which again I encourage everyone to support.

Unfortunately, this remains one of the biggest problems of our time, one which we do not talk about or think about nearly enough.

So I hope you find this conversation useful.

I now bring you Karl Robichaux.

I am here with Karl Robichaux.

Karl, thanks for joining me.

Nice.

Well, I'm a big fan of the work you're doing, although I've only just encountered it.

But you are an expert on, it seems, much that ails us with respect to nuclear weapons and proliferation and failures of containment and all of that.

So we're having this conversation 24 hours after I watched Oppenheimer in an IMAX theater, which I highly recommend to people.

I recommend people go to the movie theater to see this movie.

Have you seen it?

It's really some kind of masterpiece.

Perhaps you can alert me to anything that gets wrong with respect to the history, but not noticing any errors.

It's quite amazing.

Everything from the performances to the writing to the sound design, it's really worth it.

Again, in a theater, it's really required to appreciate it.