#Nukes: Forward deploying back to the future. Henry Sokolski, NPEC
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🗓️ 3 February 2024
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#Nukes: Forward deploying back to the future. Henry Sokolski, NPEC
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-lawmaker-urges-moving-nuclear-weapons-1865094#:~:text=A%20Russian%20lawmaker%20on%20Saturday,own%20tactical%20nukes%20to%20Europe.
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. This is CVS in the World. I'm John Bachelor. The news that the US is planning to deploy nuclear weapons, B61 gravity bombs most likely to the United Kingdom |
| 0:37.2 | requires attention from Henry Sikalsky |
| 0:40.7 | the executive director of the non-Proliferation Policy Education Center |
| 0:44.2 | because this would be the definition of Back to the Future. Once upon a time the |
| 0:48.8 | U.S. in contesting Europe with the then Soviet Empire, stationed missiles with |
| 0:57.5 | warheads in Europe to great protest discomfiting everyone in the diplomatic community. |
| 1:06.5 | And this was late Soviet Union. |
| 1:09.2 | Are we going to see those protests again? |
| 1:11.9 | The United Kingdom is protesting because some believe it's to be |
| 1:16.2 | in the in Suffolk. Some believe that this makes the United Kingdom a target. The additional |
| 1:22.4 | twist from my colleague Anatole |
| 1:24.9 | Leven of the Quincy Institute is that the real upset will be on the |
| 1:29.3 | mainland because in the event that the Russians attack the Baltics or Poland, which is the NATO concern, |
| 1:37.3 | the nukes would be used in Europe. |
| 1:39.4 | Henry, a very good evening to you. |
| 1:40.7 | This is from our youth, stationing nuclear weapons in Europe. |
| 1:45.3 | Your regard at this, are we going to see those mass protests of the 1980s or |
| 1:50.5 | as everybody moved on? Can't say, don't know. |
| 1:55.0 | It's not even clear what we're doing. |
| 1:59.0 | So at first, the cause Beli is yet to be deployed. |
| 2:05.0 | We don't know if the United States is going to redeploy weapons. |
| 2:09.7 | And so that becomes a bit problematic for, you know, energizing protest. |
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