Hey everyone. So just a quick heads up that this is our last episode of

season four. We'll be taking a break for the holidays to produce an amazing lineup of

episodes for season five. So stay tuned for updates and have a fabulous end of

your year. So you came like a missile.

Growing American concerns about the threat posed by China.

It's a new breed of super fast missiles.

A hypersonic missile hypersonic weapons system.

Beijing test launch the weapon this summer sending it into space and around the planet.

We are behind the Chinese, we are behind the Russians.

There's a lot more work to do on hypersonics.

How would you track it if it was carrying a nuclear strike

the balance power between the United States and China?

And the United States General Mark Millie, the Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff,

held a press conference and confirmed suspicions that China had tested a hypersonic missile over the summer.

A lot of the coverage that followed was breathless.

In the confusion, it was easy to imagine futuristic,

super fast missiles that could evade our defenses and strike without warning.

Some compared the test to a Sputnik moment, invoking the Cold War and its perilous arms races.

The truth is a lot more complex complex and many of these fears may be

exaggerated. Still it was an exceptional moment if only because it gave a new

generation a taste of a nuclear danger and reminded the world about the fragile system of

mutually assured destruction that has prevented nuclear war for decades.

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