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We've got that story. Plus, Musk and the Pentagon get even cozier, but first, U.S. says Russia nuclear drills interfering

with our NATO nuclear exercises. Russia is holding their annual Grom exercises that will be held for

several weeks, and the U.S. says they will include the launching

of nuclear-capable ballistic missiles. The drills coincide with NATO's nuclear exercises known

as steadfast noon that are being hosted by Belgium and held over the U.K. and the North Sea.

Both exercises have been described as routine, but come amid soaring tensions

between the U.S. and Russia over the potential use of nuclear weapons. President Biden recently

warned that the risk of nuclear war is higher now than at any time since the height of the Cold War.

NATO's steadfast noon exercises do not involve live-fire drills, but 14 alliance members are participating.

The U.S., Britain, and France, are NATO's only nuclear-armed powers, but five other alliance members,

host nuclear weapons for the U.S. under NATO's nuclear sharing program, Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey.

Russia notified U.S. its annual nuclear exercise has begun. U.S. officials say,

James, it keeps cranking it up.

It certainly does, and for people who don't understand the significance of this,

I will point them back to a little bit of history

because it's often said that the Cuban Missile Crisis

was the greatest point of tension throughout the Cold War,

the point where we were on the nuclear brink.

But actually, no, there is a good case to be made

that the actual nuclear brink was reached in 1983 because of a routine

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