A farewell to arms control? Ukraine and nuclear weapons
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The Economist
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🗓️ 6 June 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
For almost 80 years, the world has refrained from using or, for the most part, even seriously pondering the use of nuclear weapons. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has eroded that taboo. Avian flu is spreading around the world, threatening birds’ health and contributing to rising egg and poultry prices. And Sun Ra’s huge, weird and wonderful Arkestra is back on the road.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from the economist. In New York, I'm John Fassman. |
| 0:09.8 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:17.6 | With COVID still rampant and monkey pox detected in 30 countries, the lasting anyone needs |
| 0:22.8 | is another epidemic. But avian influenza has been infecting flocks all over the world, |
| 0:28.5 | with worrying consequences. |
| 0:32.8 | And Sun Ra was a jazz musician and composer who claimed to have been born on Saturn. |
| 0:38.3 | In 2020, his orchestra recorded their first studio album in 20 years, and with lockdowns |
| 0:44.2 | easing, they're back on the road, and thralling a new generation of fans. |
| 0:55.9 | Just up though. |
| 1:03.7 | Today Britain confirmed it will provide long-range missiles to Ukraine. It's thought that |
| 1:08.6 | three of the M270 multiple launch rocket systems are being sent. Last week, the United |
| 1:14.2 | States announced that it too was giving Ukraine rockets. |
| 1:21.7 | Over the weekend, Russia's president Vladimir Putin said that if such rockets were supplied, |
| 1:26.7 | his country would draw appropriate conclusions, and use our means of destruction, which we |
| 1:33.8 | have plenty of. |
| 1:37.3 | The phrase means of destruction may be deliberately ambiguous, but not everyone on Russian |
| 1:41.8 | TV is so delicate. |
| 1:45.8 | A news anchor outlines the ways in which his country could obliterate Britain. |
| 2:06.4 | One method he says would be to explode a nuclear torpedo off the coast and drown the country |
| 2:11.9 | in a radioactive tsunami. |
| 2:17.8 | Ever since America bombed Japan in 1945, the world has refrained not just from using nuclear |
| 2:23.6 | weapons, but also for the most part, from cavalierly threatening their use. |
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