Are nuclear weapons an existential threat to humanity?

Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast.

Today I have a special episode with

Jake Chapman, and it's part of a special series that I'm doing, which is essentially a Crazy Wisdom book club where I reach out to somebody, ask them what they're reading. I read it, and then we have a conversation about the book. Today we talked about the book Doomsday Machine by Daniel Ellsberg.

It's a very

apocalyptic book about the state of our nuclear weapon here, both here in the United States and in other countries, and all of the crazy ways in which we regulate nuclear weapons in the government and all the problems that there are with it. I think you'll enjoy listening to this episode if you're kind of worried about the state of our nation and its existential threats in trying to figure out a way to do something about it. And Jake has a lot of good ideas about the book.

I like this podcast series because you

can get insight into the book without actually having to read it. And you can also get kind of extraneous knowledge that comes out through a conversation. So I hope you enjoy it. If you do, please just find us on itunes and give us a review. Reach out to me on Twitter ewartalsopiii if you want to talk with me directly about the episode.

Remember, really hope you enjoy it. Let me know what you think.

Thanks.

Like thematic cohorts. And so this book was in my last cohort, which included a book called Learning to Die in the Anthropocene. Another really cheery book, a book called the Planet Remade, about climate change and geoengineering and then a couple fiction books. And I was basically, basically trying to dig into the existential threats that we may be facing over the next 10 or 20 years and think about how that might factor into my investment philosophy and thesis. And so I wanted to do a deep dive into