I want to welcome everyone back to the Pete Cagnonez show.

Thomas, we got a new series that you wanted to start here.

You mentioned that and I was like, we need to jump all over it, especially since you mentioned

the Oppenheimer movie that's out and that this would be a good supplement or side by side to it.

So tell everybody a little bit about what you're thinking.

I want to discuss the German atomic bomb, like everything about it.

Like if such a program existed, know um conceptually what is you know

what was the catalyst for it you know what was the state of of science at the time and also um

in kind of more apoccal terms you know i want to talk about nuclear weapons generally or atomic

weapons in that era um you know people people have a misunderstanding about about about the bomb and

about nuclear weapons generally um they uh people like thomas schilling Herman Kahn, they made the point that nuclear weapons are like any other weapons.

They're just far, far more muscle bound.

Um, the, uh, the ability to impose, you know, devastating attrition in an instant them, you know, marks them apart.

As does, you know, very, like, strategic variables relating to their destructive power.

It creates peculiar paradigms.

I mean, all that is true, okay?

But they don't have, they don't have great utility in any kind of like general applied sense.

And there's, there's actually very few paradigms where they really are a game changer, that they really advance, you know, the, the military ranges of a state, you know, instantaneously.

You know, like it, um, there's this kind of like, there's this kind of like mythical belief in super weapons.

Just, I mean, it's like an ongoing thing.

It just seems to people assign a kind of mystique, you know, to war tech.

And I guess like nuclear weapons could be viewed as kind of like the zenith of that.

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