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Special Episode: Engineering the Apocalypse

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Pandemics - The Roll of Money?

The U.S. currently spends about 35 billion dollars a year maintaining its nuclear arsenal, while the world as a whole spends about 70 billion dollars a year. That kind of annual budget would fund every pandemic preparedness measure i'm going to mention in thi series, many times over. So it's a highly precedented level of investment to make against a major national security risk,. In an investment that i think would do the trick of defending against future pandemics if used wisely.

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