E2: On Nuclear Weapons, e/acc, and Global Energy Supply

On today's episode of Live Players, Samo Burja and Erik Torenberg dive into all things nuclear. They cover the historical role of coal and oil in shaping global conflicts, the inevitability of nuclear proliferation, and the challenges of scaling nuclear energy. They also discuss the inevitability of nuclear weapons and Samo proposes a strategy to mitigate the risks associated with their proliferation.

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LINKS:

Samo’s Bismarck Brief: https://brief.bismarckanalysis.com/

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X / TWITTER:

@eriktorenberg

@samoburja

@turpentinemedia

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TIMESTAMPS:

(00:00) Intro

(00:55) How energy impacts geopolitics

(02:43) Coal is extremely regional as an energy source

(04:32) Oil is evenly distributed around the world

(08:16) Fracking deconstrains energy

(10:09) Nuclear enters the story in 1945

(16:38) When the great powers of the world limit nuclear proliferation.

(18:14) Making nuclear energy affordable

(21:27) Our energy needs are kind of trivial and we should be a nuclear civilization by now

(23:30) Sponsor - Secureframe

(24:28) Nuclear acceleration is inevitable

(37:46) The US might as well reap the benefits from building cheap and abundant nuclear energy

(47:34) Is the only way we get the abundance that comes with nuclear energy is to increase the risk of nuclear war?

(55:02] On free export of nuclear technology across countries

(57:27) Wrap