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The Birth of Nuclear Deterrence Theory
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This episode explores the ideas of nuclear deterrence and how it was developed by groups of civilian intellectuals in the aftermath of the first atomic bomb, discussing Oppenheimer's approach versus those who believed that the system wasn't flexible enough and we needed to learn how to live with these weapons as intelligently as we could.
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