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On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

Are we entering a new Cold War era?

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

On Point, News, Daily, Talk Show, Npr

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The Cold War was defined by the fear of mutually assured destruction. Does Russia's invasion of Ukraine signal a new Cold War? Mary Elise Sarotte, Jack Beatty and William Braun join Meghna Chakrabarti.

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First in a test in the United States, New Mexico desert, then 5,000 miles away at Hiroshima

1:10.5

and then again at Nagasaki came the world's shaking explosions of the atomic bomb.

1:15.9

Her armies defeated wherever they had been met.

1:18.4

Her navy virtually destroyed.

1:20.3

Japan asked for peace.

1:23.0

Men of all the world took hope.

1:24.9

Peace and decency were assured as the representatives of the United Nations signed the San Francisco

1:30.1

charter.

1:31.1

The lessons learned in 1945 if mankind would remember them could make the world a better place

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