3/22/2015: Iraq's Christians, Rare Earth Elements, Starstruck
60 Minutes
CBS News
3.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2015
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Lara Logan reports on Iraq's Christians; Are modern life's devices under China's grip? Lesley Stahl reports; then, Charlie Rose profiles astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
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| 0:00.0 | Christianity in Iraq was born in small towns and villages like these. |
| 0:08.0 | Today some of them are deserted, abandoned because ISIS is forcing Christians out. |
| 0:15.0 | The Islamic State marks homes the way Nazis marked the property of Jews. |
| 0:20.0 | Archbishop Nicodemus Sharath says he had five minutes to flee from Iraq's second largest city, Mosul. |
| 0:28.0 | He grabbed five ancient manuscripts from his church, but had to leave other relics behind. |
| 0:34.4 | You had books from the first century. |
| 0:36.3 | Of that Christianity. |
| 0:39.3 | The F-35 fighter jet is the most technologically advanced weapon system in history. |
| 0:49.3 | Each one contains nearly a half a ton of what's called rare earth elements, almost all of which come from |
| 0:56.7 | China. The guidance systems on weapon systems and Tomahawk cruise missile, any of the smart |
| 1:02.4 | bombs have rare earths in them, I'd be hard pressed to name anything that we consider worth building |
| 1:08.6 | today. Today and going forward that would not have a rare earth component in. |
| 1:12.7 | Because of this, because of the monopoly on rare earths, does China threaten our national security? |
| 1:19.1 | Unchecked, yes. |
| 1:23.1 | Here is something you haven't seen before. An astrophysicist on stage in a sold-out auditorium. |
| 1:30.3 | Neil deGrasse Tyson is reigniting a fascination for the great beyond. He succeeded Carl Sagan |
| 1:37.3 | as the country's most captivating scientific communicator. |
| 1:41.3 | When I was 11, I said, this is so amazing. Who wouldn't want to study the universe? |
| 1:46.2 | What was so amazing? The endless frontier of it all. The vastness of it. The mystery of it. |
| 1:56.2 | I'm Steve Croft. I'm Leslie Stahl. I'm Lara Logan. I'm Bill Whitaker. |
| 2:01.8 | I'm Charlie Rose. |
| 2:03.0 | I'm Scott Pelly. |
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