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Ananyo Bhattacharya - John von Neumann, Jewish Genius, and Nuclear War
Dwarkesh Podcast
The Peremptive Strike on the United States
Von norman was deeply uncomfortable with the idea that we had two or more sides with enough nuclear weapons to wipe out the world many times over. He thought that if nuclear weapons ever were used a, you know, you'd have to be insane to just go all out. His daughter certainly thinks he was advocating for a peremptive strike on the soviet union. But it's not entirely clear that he meant that in all seriousness.
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