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Published · transcript-backedScott Horton: observation
26 Jun 2025 Lex Fridman Podcast #473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
“I said the problem is we’re talking about nuclear stuff, which is all very complicated, and most people don’t know much about it, which is what the war party is relying on, that people just hear nuclear, afraid, and mushroom cloud and give the benefit of the doubt to the hawks.”
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- Scott Horton
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- 26 Jun 2025
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
Transcript context
…Point made. Let’s try, if possible, to keep it to a minute and two of back and forth- I said the problem is we’re talking about nuclear stuff, which is all very complicated, and most people don’t know much about it, which is what the war party is relying on, that people just hear nuclear, afraid, and mushroom cloud and give the benefit of the doubt to the hawks. And so we got to get into the details of this stuff. Details 100%, but I like the tension between two people with different perspectives exploring those details. And the more we can go back and forth, the better. And there’s a lot of disagreement on the table. I personally enjoy learning from the disagreement, I think, a lot-…
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