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The limits of safety

Book by Scott Sagan

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Sep 18, 2026

Jeff KaplowHOST
32:28
That became like a big deal in the 80s and early 90s.
Jeff KaplowHOST
32:32
And there's a great book by Scott Sagan, the political scientist Scott Sagan, called The Limits of Safety.
Jeff KaplowHOST
32:40
And this is a book that examines how comfortable we should feel about the lack of any unintentional nuclear use up to the early 90s when this book was written.
Jeff KaplowHOST
32:51
And the conclusion of this book, and there's been a lot of work since this book that looks at kind of the safety of our nuclear enterprise, it basically concludes that it's mostly luck.

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