1/2: #NuclearWar: The bombs are not going away & What is to be done? Henry Sokolski, NPEC
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1/2: #NuclearWar: The bombs are not going away & What is to be done? Henry Sokolski, NPEC
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/01/rising-threat-nuclear-war-annihilation/
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| 0:41.0 | George Well riding at the Washington Post, |
| 0:45.0 | a few tenths of a second, after the launch, |
| 0:49.0 | a bus-sized US satellite 22,300 miles above Earth detects the missile's plume. Six second later, computers |
| 0:58.1 | in the command center beneath the Pentagon are predicting its destination, the Pentagon. |
| 1:04.3 | 24 seconds later, at the military Cheyenne Mountain Complex in Colorado, computers |
| 1:10.1 | generate this message. |
| 1:12.1 | Nuclear, Launch, Alert. generate this message. Nuclear launch alert. The beginning of the end of the |
| 1:17.3 | beginning. I welcome Henry Sikoski, the executive director of the |
| 1:22.3 | Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, to comment |
| 1:25.9 | not only on George Wills' timely column based upon his reading of a new book, Nuclear |
| 1:31.4 | War a Scenario by Annie Jacobson. But also the fact that whatever is |
| 1:37.5 | happening in the culture right now is a convergence. For example, within these last 24 hours after George Wells Column, the Christian Science Monitor |
| 1:47.6 | an esteemed feature writing newspaper published in deterrence we trust, mark cold war nuclear questions make a |
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