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The John Batchelor Show

2/2: #Eisenhower: The December 1953 UN Speech ""Atoms for Peace was the origin of proliferation & What is to be done? Henry Sokolski, NPEC

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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com pricing shown. I'm John Bachelors with my colleague Henry Sikoski at years and proliferation of nuclear weapons.

0:40.8

We begin in December of 53 with the fiction that there is a peaceful use for

0:45.3

fissile material. In 27, 2023 we're given the news that North Korea which

0:52.1

defines bad actor and a brute and irresponsible bad actor, is making

0:59.8

weapons-grade material with light water reactors given to it by the United States of America.

1:05.4

So what is to be done?

1:07.0

Henry, simple reading amateur from the outside says the only thing to be done right now is to dismantle all atomic power plants and block up all fissile material and close Canada's minds down.

1:23.0

Well, good luck.

1:25.0

That doesn't sound terribly practical.

1:28.0

And in fairness, let's be clear, there is a peaceful use for physical material. It's just there's also a co-eville military

1:35.8

use and the problem isn't that there aren't perfectly legitimate uses of this

1:40.1

it's to make sure that the illegitimate uses aren't the ones that people use these things for.

1:47.0

So, well, you know, I mean, we rely on nuclear power for a big chunk of our electricity and so do other countries.

1:55.0

So the problem is how do you make sure that it isn't diverted for military use?

2:01.0

And we have not come up with a great set of answers for that and there are some

2:06.2

technologies that are nuclear that are even worse than the ones that are just nominally available that you know you want to maybe take a even closer look at.

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