{"id":690,"date":"2009-10-20T17:02:14","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T21:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/?p=690"},"modified":"2009-10-20T17:02:14","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T21:02:14","slug":"debate-and-nuclear-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/690","title":{"rendered":"Debate and Nuclear War"},"content":{"rendered":"

The final part of an 8-part series regressing through the Stanford 2002 APDA tournament.<\/p>\n

Last week: Round 2 (re: chemical weapons)<\/a><\/p>\n

Today’s round<\/a> takes us back to the beginning of the tournament, the first filmed round of my career since the quarterfinals at Columbia, wherein Emily and I dismantled a case about China and Taiwan and then Mike Specian, APDA filmer extraordinaire, lost the tape. Before that, it might date back to Dartmouth 2000 outrounds or something, which I have somewhere and would love to get converted as well.<\/p>\n

Regardless, this was a pretty fun case for first round. Involving one of my favorite movies of all-time, “Dr. Strangelove”, this case encouraged the speaker to conduct a full nuclear strike on the Soviet Union rather than trying to warn or negotiate with the Soviets. Suffice it to say that I had a little bit to say in response. Generally in debate, nuclear war is the worst-case scenario that everyone’s trying to avoid. When the Gov makes it their case statement, you know you’re going to have a good day…<\/p>\n

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Stanford 2002 APDA Round 1<\/a> from Storey Clayton<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The final part of an 8-part series regressing through the Stanford 2002 APDA tournament. Last week: Round 2 (re: chemical weapons) Today’s round takes us back to the beginning of the tournament, the first filmed round of my career since the quarterfinals at Columbia, wherein Emily and I dismantled a case about China and Taiwan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,50,30],"tags":[5,6,70],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-but-the-past-isnt-done-with-us","category-the-agony-of-the-wait-is-the-agony-of-debate","tag-a-day-in-the-life","tag-but-the-past-isnt-done-with-us","tag-the-agony-of-the-wait-is-the-agony-of-debate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}