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Thank God For The Atom Bomb | PIRATE WIRES EP#7

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The Pessimistic Perspective of Dean Preston

Camille: I thought the movie was pretty pessimistic, but there's quite a lot of reason for optimism. Paul Fussell: We've never been so close to total cataclysm. But at the same time, it's only what seven decades or something like it's a blip in in human history,. The innovation of bombs did make it possible for the first time in human history for a war to reduce us to ashes.

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