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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 324: Nuclear bombs and nuclear war
Description: The boys drink and review Pigweed's homemade brown ale, then discuss nuclear war.
They distinguish fission and fusion reactions, and how that relates to nuclear bombs and their development.
After Word War 2 there was a mad rush to develop larger and larger stockpiles.
Today, nine countries are confirmed as having nuclear weapons. But for some strange reason we seem less afraid of nuclear war now than we were during the Cold War.
The peace seems to have been maintained by the doctrine of mutually assured destruction. But how does that apply...