Episode 138: "Thinking Again about the Unthinkable" with Dr. Peter Vincent Pry
This show comes at time that this episode's guest, Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, calls our "hinge of fate."
Our topic is his riveting paper "Surprise Attack: ICBMs and the Real Nuclear Threat" where he lays bare the world's current and future nuclear warfare realities.
It's an issue that many simply do not want to think about.
As Peter puts it, "when it comes to nuclear weapons, U.S. and Western strategic culture mostly thinks and acts in a state of denial and unreality. Nuclear weapons of mass destruction are antithetical to our ethos."
But as Leon Trotsky warned, "You may not be interested in war…
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