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1 Nov 2017 Conversations with Tyler Steve Teles and Brink Lindsey on *The Captured Economy*
“Although perhaps, maybe we have actually been… Because we haven’t had a nuclear war yet between two nuclear powers, we think that there is something uniquely stabilizing about having nuclear weapons that it produces this mad scenario where it chastens and disciplines policymakers.”
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- 1 Nov 2017
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…The eight year-old Brink Lindsey, did he think nukes were over or underrated? [chuckle] I don’t know how to put it in that prism. Overrated as usable, underrated as a peace keeper. Although perhaps, maybe we have actually been… Because we haven’t had a nuclear war yet between two nuclear powers, we think that there is something uniquely stabilizing about having nuclear weapons that it produces this mad scenario where it chastens and disciplines policymakers. That could be the case, although reasoning from 70 years seems to get ahead of yourself. But there is a disarmament movement that we should all get rid of nukes, do you root for it? Would you send it money? Would you embrace it as part of the liberaltarian canon?…
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