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He described it as a harrowing account of the ColdWar arms race that shows how humanity can approach existential danger.
It is called The Dead Hand, the untold story of the Cold War arms race and its dangerous legacy. It's a really harrowing story of how humans can lose the plot. We as humans, USSR and United States......
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Episode: The Pandemic Lessons We Clearly Haven’t Learned
He described it as a harrowing account of the ColdWar arms race that shows how humanity can approach existential danger.
It is called The Dead Hand, the untold story of the Cold War arms race and its dangerous legacy. It's a really harrowing story of how humans can lose the plot. We as humans, USSR and United States... set ourselves on an incredibly dangerous path, both nuclear weapons and bioweapons, and came close many times to existential level threats.
