And the Welcome to Art Bell Somewhere in Time, tonight featuring Coast to Coast AM from December 11, 2001.

From the High Desert in the great American Southwest.

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, whatever the case may be in all 24 time zones covered now by this program. I'm Art Bell and the program of course is

close to coast. A.M. glad to have you. Well I see that our president is planning to announce in several days that the U.S. is going to get out

the 1972 Anti-Bolicic Missile Treaty, which means to me we are going to be building anti-ballistic missiles. Now it is required that we give

Russia six months notice before packing it in. With this decision, the President takes the first step for developing an anti-missile system

that he says will protect the U.S. and its allies from missiles fired by rogue nations.

Russia and the U.S.

I've warned Bush that withdrawing may trigger a nuclear arms race.

Now that's interesting and I suppose if you put yourself in the shoes of the Russians or the Chinese, they don't necessarily have the technical capability to build an anti-missile system,

but they do have nuclear weapons perched at the end of ballistic missiles.

So there's a little bit of danger window here because if you've got them, if you figure the US is going to be able to successfully build a shield,

then of course if you've got them you better use them or you'll lose them.

That certainly would be one mode of thinking if you put yourself in the

enemies, the potential opposition's shoes. He corrects himself. So I don't know.

Good idea, bad idea, what do you think?

The Tora B-52s are just bombing the hell out of Tora-Bora.

They believe that Al-Qaeda top dogs and maybe even Osama, his self may be there.

A lot of confusion at this hour in To our borough because there is there was an initial report that the al-Qaeda forces were

surrendering and they had been given a deadline and they were surrendering and now that report appears to be at this hour in question so nobody knows for

sure.

But if they don't of course the B-52s will crank back up again you You'll probably see a bunch of bunker busters go off and all hell

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