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CYBER

It's 2020 And We Need To Talk About Nuclear Warheads

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Some people think they’re just a vestige of a bygone era, but they’re not. In fact, nuclear weapons remain the everlasting threat they were when we first introduced them to planet earth: An existential nightmare wherein we possess the ability to obliterate our own planet, many times over, with the push of a button. So this week we have friend of the show and Motherboard contributor Matthew Gault to talk nukes. America’s arsenal is being updated; Russia has (probably) hypersonic missiles; and why since the Cold War have we collectively decided to forget about nuclear warheads. It’s not like they’ve gone anywhere!

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0:00.0

Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch.

0:10.8

It's a unit system.

0:13.2

I know this.

0:15.1

It's all the files of the whole park.

0:17.3

It tells her everything.

0:19.2

Sir, he's uploading the virus. Eagle one. The package is being delivered.

0:23.6

Some people think they're just a vestige of a bygone era.

0:26.6

But they're not.

0:28.6

We all know the atomic bomb is very dangerous.

0:31.6

Since it may be used against us, we must get ready for it,

0:34.6

just as we are ready for many other dangers that are around us all the time.

0:39.3

In fact, nuclear weapons remain the everlasting threat they were when we first introduced them to planet Earth.

0:45.3

An existential nightmare wherein we possess the ability to obliterate our own planet many times over with the push of a button.

0:53.3

Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, Vishnu is trying to persuade the prince that he should do

1:01.6

his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

1:15.5

I suppose we all thought that one way or another.

1:18.3

So this week, we have friend of the show and motherboard contributor Matthew Galt to talk

1:23.6

nukes.

1:24.6

America's arsenal is being updated.

1:26.4

Russia has probably some crazy new missiles.

1:29.4

And why since the Cold War have we collectively decided to forget about nukes? It's not like

1:35.9

they've gone anywhere. I'm Ben Maku reporting from my kitchen, and you're listening to Cyber.

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