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What About It, VDH?

The Victor Davis Hanson Show

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The Power of Internal Decay

If you went to San Francisco in 2019 and you went today, you would think somebody dropped a neutron bomb on the city, but nobody did. So what I'm getting at is internal decay is much more potent than a nuclear weapon. If the Chinese had have sent one nuclear bomb, say one megaton, and it had hit somewhere in Mountain View near San Francisco, it wouldn't have hurt San Francisco as much as what we've done in San Francisco. And so we megatonned our own cities, and that's what happens in history.

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