{"id":96612,"date":"2025-11-29T02:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=96612"},"modified":"2025-07-20T18:16:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T22:16:34","slug":"the-manhattan-project-1986-film-and-deterrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/11\/29\/the-manhattan-project-1986-film-and-deterrence\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>The Manhattan Project<\/em> (1986 film) and Deterrence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zOZyAKFP8wk?si=vcR1NLXj8-A15vvp\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Feral Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 8 Sept 2023<\/p>\n<p>This film reminds me of several topics from nuclear deterrence to the impact of social media to that kid I went to high school with who tried to build a reactor in his mom\u2019s shed. Yeah, this is a rambly one. <\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro<br \/>\n01:02 Summary<br \/>\n02:25 Social Media<br \/>\n04:35 Deterrence<br \/>\n06:51 Radioactive Boy Scout<br \/>\n09:50 Modern Security State<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 Patreon   | patreon.com\/FeralHistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Ko-Fi     | ko-fi.com\/feralhistorian<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feral Historian Published 8 Sept 2023 This film reminds me of several topics from nuclear deterrence to the impact of social media to that kid I went to high school with who tried to build a reactor in his mom\u2019s shed. Yeah, this is a rambly one. 00:00 Intro 01:02 Summary 02:25 Social Media 04:35 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,15,13,663],"tags":[930,108,1593,122,107,504,257],"class_list":["post-96612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-technology","category-usa","category-weapons","tag-1980s","tag-coldwar","tag-feralhistorian","tag-movies","tag-nukes","tag-teenagers","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-p8g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96613,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96612\/revisions\/96613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}