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The Persistence of the US Nuclear Deterrence Policy / Elaine Scarry

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🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Elaine Scarry joins us to discuss her writing at the Boston Review, “The Extortionist Doctrine : On the persistence of U.S. nuclear deterrence policy.’” "Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi follow the interview. Check out Elaine’s article here: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-extortionists-doctrine/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

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0:00.0

We don't want no nuclear war.

0:08.0

With nuclear war, we won't get far.

0:12.0

I said, we don't want no new fear war. You know he'll be won. Because you feel all we're moving at home.

0:24.6

Take it down. This is hell.

0:51.6

Chris, inquiring minds want to know what was the music that you were playing just before

0:58.5

the show started.

0:59.5

I love the way whatever song that was began because it sounded like a breaking news intro.

1:06.0

It was really good.

1:07.0

It's No Nuclear War by Peter Tosh. I think is one of his last albums, too.

1:12.9

Yeah, I'm not familiar with that Peter Tosh song.

1:14.8

I've saw him a couple of times.

1:16.1

That was really great.

1:17.2

I like that.

1:18.1

Live from late capitalism, where we know the price of everything, but the value of nothing,

1:24.9

this is hell.

1:27.0

And whatever few values we still have remaining, are in doubt when

1:31.9

we consider the seeming lack of logic behind preventing Armageddon. One of the prevailing

1:38.1

rationales to stop weapons of mass destruction from ushering in an apocalypse is, at best, irrational.

1:46.2

That theory to avoid a nuclear holocaust is known as nuclear deterrence, as in limiting

1:52.0

the possibility of nuclear war by constantly posing the threat of launching a supposedly

1:56.9

retaliative nuclear war.

1:59.9

On the surface, it sounds a lot like fighting fire with fire,

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