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Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes

Dwarkesh Podcast

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The Unrefined Uranium Ore

The laws of physics could have been such that unrefined uranium ore was enough to build a nuclear weapon, right? In some sense, we got lucky that it takes a nation state level actor to really refine and produce the raw substance. And all the uranium in the world would already have destroyed itself. People today who are anti-nuclear stable, what are we gonna do about the waste? Where are we gonna put all that waste? It's silly. Is that what I'm gonna hold? Yeah, basically.

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