PREVIEW: JAPAN: NUKES: Conversation with colleague Grant Newsham, author of "WHEN CHINA ATTACKS," re: the negotiation between the US and Japan about nukes stationed in Japan -- and how soon the Japanese could construct their own nuke arsenal. More later.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 29 July 2024
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival, |
| 0:06.0 | three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized tent. |
| 0:10.7 | Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend. |
| 0:13.1 | All right. |
| 0:14.0 | Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior. |
| 0:16.8 | And don't get us started on Mel. |
| 0:19.4 | But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together. |
| 0:22.8 | All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat. |
| 0:25.8 | Keep everyone's plans alive when you travel with us. |
| 0:28.1 | P and Dau Ferris, there is another way. |
| 0:31.1 | This is John Batcheter, a conversation with my colleague Colonel Grant and Husham United States Marine |
| 0:35.4 | Corps retired about the 2-plus 2, the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, meeting with the Japanese Foreign Minister and the |
| 0:45.4 | Japanese Minister of Defense discussing nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons in Japan. |
| 0:52.2 | Japan is interested in the U.S. providing the umbrella. |
| 0:55.8 | However, I ask Grant, what about the Japanese? |
| 1:00.9 | Can they put together a bomb quickly if they need to? |
| 1:03.7 | Their own bomb? |
| 1:05.1 | Grant answers bluntly. |
| 1:06.6 | Is Grant Neushaman, the Japanese bomb? |
| 1:10.2 | More of this later tonight. |
| 1:11.2 | No, I think that if the Japanese wanted, they put a bomb together pretty quickly, and the delivery systems as well. |
| 1:20.0 | How quickly, I've heard things from six weeks to six months to a year, but I would have to assume that they have given the matter some thought very quietly and the Japanese are able to keep secrets unlike a lot of people. |
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