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#NATO: Theater Nuclear Weapons, again. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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#NATO: Theater Nuclear Weapons, again. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/plans-progress-to-bring-us-nuclear-weapons-to-uk/ar-BB1hqDrv

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Go. UK. I'm John Bessie with my colleague Colonel Jeff McCausen, CBS News, and the author with colleagues of a book that is Back to the Future. Tactical Nuclear Weapons and

0:46.6

NATO once upon a time. Jeff you and I have discussed this book because of the

0:51.6

provocative language used by Vladimir Putin for a year and a half

0:54.8

about forward-basing theater nuclear weapons in Belarus, perhaps also in Kaliningrad,

1:01.2

the exclave on the Baltic Sea. But now there is a report that the

1:05.8

US is planning on basing theater weapons, theater nuclear weapons, likely gravity bombs,

1:11.9

B61's, refurbished in the United Kingdom for the first time

1:15.9

in 15 years. The question is, is this enough because there is also a concern in Moscow, hey what are you doing? How would you like us to...

1:26.0

This is from a member of the Duma, but he didn't move without Moscow's permission.

1:31.6

How would you like us to base theater weapons in Cuba,

1:35.9

in Venezuela, Nicaragua, the first time

1:39.4

in that list of rascals?

1:41.6

So what we have here is nuclear weapons talk like the Cold War. Is there

1:46.1

any difference, Jeff? Can you see a significant transformation of an understanding of theater weapons here in the 21st century compared to what you lived

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