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Special Episode: Recipes for Future Plagues
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Hiroshima: An Attention Hazard?
Hiroshima was an attention hazard. It informed the world that this is possible, this thing you might not otherwise have bothered with because it's going to cost billions of dollars and distract your top scientists. So in a way, using the bomb on japan, the isotopic signature, told everyone what the americans had managed to do so without the blueprints - they could look at the radioactive signature of heroshima and a lot of hints. The big one is, as you said, an attention hazards. It says, this is a weapon powerful enough to destroy cities that could determine the future course of warfare. That's a giant neon blinking sign in the sky to anyone who
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