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The John Batchelor Show

#NUKES: What is the nuclear weapon threshold? Peter Huessy, Deterrence Studies. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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#NUKES: What is the nuclear weapon threshold? Peter Huessy, Deterrence Studies. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

1906 War of the Worlds

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This is CBS Eye on the World.

0:38.5

Here's John Batchelor.

0:41.9

Nuclear weapons in the 21st century, the Russian Federation, within these last hours,

0:49.6

we're told from Moscow that the legislature, the Duma, has approved lowering the threshold of the use

0:57.1

of nuclear weapons in combat. Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang is my colleague and co-host, and we're

1:04.1

very pleased to be able to join somebody who thinks about these matters all the time. Peter Husey, president of geostrategic analysis,

1:14.2

a fellow at the National Institute for Deterrence Studies. Peter, a very good evening to you.

1:20.3

Good evening to you, John. I note in conversation with my colleagues that no one yet has

1:25.8

thought of a moment in the 20th century or the 21st

1:30.5

in which anyone at all hostile or accidental has fired a missile into Mother Russia.

1:38.3

I believe now that that has happened.

1:40.7

It wasn't fired at the cursed salient.

1:42.7

It was fired at Mother Russia.

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