If You Had a Nuclear Weapon in Your Neighborhood, Would You Want to Know about It?
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Scientific American
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🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. |
| 0:11.0 | So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas. |
| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app. |
| 0:31.0 | After over 50 years of incredible service, the Minuteman 3 will be replaced and modernized with a new generation ICBM. The Ground-based Strategic Deterrant Systems Directorate team will deploy and 100 facilities across almost 40,000 square miles of US territory. |
| 0:44.6 | This undertaking is a true mega project that will require radical teamwork, disciplined |
| 0:49.4 | execution, and historic resolve. This true mega project is now called the Sentinel Missile Program. |
| 0:53.0 | It's the Air Force's most ambitious is now called the Sentinel Missile Program. |
| 1:08.0 | It's the Air Force's most ambitious military construction and weapons project in decades. The new weapon is one part of the plan that was started under former President Barack Obama. It was |
| 1:14.2 | accelerated by the Trump administration to replace and upgrade the entire US |
| 1:18.0 | nuclear arsenal at a projected cost of upward of 1.5 trillion over the next 30 years. It's a project that will |
| 1:25.4 | perpetuate until at least 2075 the little-known role that my tribe, the three |
| 1:30.0 | affiliated tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota plays in U.S. national security policy to be a nuclear target. |
| 1:40.0 | You're listening to Scientific Americans podcast series, The Missals on Arez. |
| 1:44.6 | I'm Ella Weber, a member of the Mandan Hideatsa in a recreation, a Princeton student and a journalist. |
| 1:50.9 | This is episode 3, the Air Force's new nuclear missile. |
| 1:57.0 | In this episode, we'll be talking about how the Air Force came to our reservation |
| 2:00.6 | to present its new missile project to the tribe and how this fits into the |
| 2:04.5 | broader patterns that have characterized our historical relationship with the |
| 2:07.8 | U.S. government. |
| 2:09.8 | The National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, is a federal law that requires |
| 2:16.6 | federal agencies to integrate environmental values into their decision-making process. |
| 2:22.6 | NEPA review is required when a federal action is proposed |
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