Moral Revulsion

This week we talk about chemical weapons, North Korea, and misspeaking on camera.

We also discuss Yugoslavia, the MOAB, and Aleppo.

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Show Notes

• Intro
• Chemical weapons
• Chemical weapons in WWI (and chemical warfare in general)
• Phosgene & mustard gas
• Geneva Protocol
• Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907

• Unspooling
• North Korea didn’t test a nuclear weapon, but it did try to launch another missile via The Washington Post
• Day of the Sun, Kim Il-sung, and Kim Jong-un
• Timeline of North Korean nuclear program
• Pence Talks Tough on North Korea, but U.S. Stops Short of Drawing Red Line
• Foreign relations of North Korea
• Past episode: Nuclear Diplomacy
• Bombing of Tokyo (and Operation Meetinghouse)
• Tokyo vs. Hiroshima
• Little Boy atomic bomb
• Revulsion: a sense of disgust and loathing
• Worst Chemical Attack in Years in Syria; U.S. Blames Assad
• MOAB strike: 90 IS fighters killed in Afghanistan
• GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB)
• MOAB, the largest non-nuclear bomb ever used by the US military, explained
• How Does the “Mother of All Bombs” Compare to a Nuclear Bomb?
• Tsar Bomba
• Father of All Bombs
• Tactical nuclear weapon
• Some recently declassified nuclear blast videos
• ‘I Screwed Up’: Sean Spicer Apologizes for Holocaust Comments
• Here’s the SNL skit lampooning Sean Spicer after his holocaust comments
• ‘What Is Aleppo?’ Gary Johnson Asks, in an Interview Stumble
• Official: Spicer misspoke on attack, meant Orlando, not Atlanta
• Holocaust denial (on purpose) is also a thing
• Robert Bentley, Alabama Governor, Resigns Amid Scandal
• Alabama’s Governor Ordered His Bodyguard to Break Up With His Mistress—Now the State Has Broken Up With Him
• Note the details about the iPad: The affair and cover-up that just landed Alabama’s governor in jail, explained
• NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
• Legitimacy of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
• Rights Group Says NATO Bombing in Yugoslavia Violated Law
• Impeachment of Bill Clinton
• Why Aren’t Any Bankers in Prison for Causing the Financial Crisis?
• Schadenfreude
• The influence of discrete emotions on judgement and decision-making: a meta-analytic review
• Affect heuristic

• Outro
• My new book: Becoming Who We Need To Be
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