Everyone went on to their morning activity-baseball games, swimming, whatever it was. In the morning, there was an announcement over the camp loudspeaker that an atom bomb had been used in Hiroshima and had destroyed the city. I was a junior counselor at a summer camp. Do you remember what it was like when you realized what had been done to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when you saw the opening of this terrible possibility, this change in the whole world? Chomsky You witnessed it-the beginning of the era of the nuclear threat. And so I want to start by taking you back to that time. And then, of course, a few years later, the bomb was in fact dropped. And they all agreed that if such a thing came into existence, it would be so totally destructive for human civilization that it would need to be eliminated completely. He said his entire class wrote the paper about this bomb. In his book The Doomsday Machine, he talks about how when he was in middle school, he was assigned a paper and his teacher told them that they were talking about the possibility of making a new kind of bomb that could destroy an entire city. And I want to start in kind of an unusual way. We talk a lot on this program about the climate crisis, but I want to talk about nuclear weapons and war. We actually had another Professor Chomsky on last week to discuss the climate crisis-Professor Aviva Chomsky, who discussed her book Is Science Enough? Forty Critical Questions About Climate Justice. One of these gets discussed more than the other. And then there is the threat of nuclear weapons and global warfare. There is the threat of climate catastrophe. You often discuss the fact that there are two twin existential threats to human civilization.
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The full exchange can be listened to here. This interview has been lightly edited for grammar and clarity. foreign policy that brought us to this point. Robinson about the threat of nuclear war, how American culture often promotes indifference to the suffering of people in other countries, and the history of U.S.
Professor Chomsky recently came on the Current Affairs podcast to talk to editor in chief Nathan J.
He is currently the Laureate Professor at the University of Arizona and Professor Emeritus in the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. He has written more than 100 books, including, most recently, Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance, co-authored with Marv Waterstone, and, forthcoming, The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Professor Noam Chomsky is one of the most influential public intellectuals in the world.
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