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Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

5/30/24 Ted Postol on How the US is Helping Ukraine Strike Russia’s Early Warning System

Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

Scott Horton

News, Politics

4.8902 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Scott is joined by Ted Postol of MIT to discuss the danger of recent Ukrainian strikes on parts of Russia’s early warning system. Postol explains why satellite limitations make Russia dependent on ground radar systems to detect incoming nuclear-armed missiles. He and Scott then discuss the stupidity of helping Ukraine damage the one thing that can help the Russians confirm they are not under nuclear attack. Discussed on the show: “Russia’s Antiquated Nuclear Warning System Jeopardizes Us All” (Washington Monthly) Ted Postol is a professor emeritus of Science, Technology, and International Security at MIT. He has written about nuclear weapons issues and the chemical attacks in Syria. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Roberts and Robers Brokerage Incorporated; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; Libertas Bella; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.

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I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute.

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I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute,

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editorial director of anti-war.com.

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Author of the book, Pools Arren,

0:19.6

time to end the war in Afghanistan,

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and the brand new enough already. Time to end the war in Afghanistan and the brand new enough already time to end the war on

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terrorism and I've recorded more than 5,500 interviews since 2003 almost all on

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foreign policy and all available for you at

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Scott Horton.org you can sign up the podcast feed there and the full

0:38.6

interview archive is also available at YouTube. YouTube. Emeritus of Science, Technology, and International Security at MIT, and you probably all

0:56.2

remember him from debunking the Conchécoon Chemical Weapons Hokes of the Obama years.

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Welcome back to the show, Ted, how you doing?

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Nice to be here.

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Very happy to have you here.

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So I have a section in my new book that I'm writing about nuclear war and I cite you in

1:15.8

there because of your previous warnings especially I guess from two years ago at the

1:19.7

onset of the to mankind. So now this has come up again because the Ukrainians, I gather through drone strikes, have

1:37.8

hit three radar stations inside the Russian Federation and it's these radar stations along with the

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satellites that provide their early warning system for you know the threat of nuclear attack.

1:54.0

So I was wondering if you could kind of take us through

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their systems and what difference it makes that the Ukrainians are hitting them now.

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