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no bull and the aftermath.

Innovation races never stay one.

It was a blink of the eye between the United States deploying atomic weapons in Japan to

the Russians testing one.

There's no example really of a technology that you can keep in a test uber and a safe

for very long.

So what that says is, you know, look, yes, do what you need to do to make sure that you

are either, quote, winning or a very fast follower, but acknowledge that technology disperses.

And that points you in a really important but eyes glaze over a conversation which is,

you've got to start putting in places the protocols and the conventions and the agreements

and the norms that talk about how we use that technology.

So it's a false belief that we can win and everything will be good.

We do want to be up there.

We want to be at the top of the race, but we also need to do something we haven't done

in four years, which is devote time and energy to thinking about a world where these technologies

are dispersed and what kind of rules and norms we want in that world.

I'm Susan Hennessy and this is the LawFair podcast October 26th, 2020.

This month, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Subcommittee on Strategic Technologies

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