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Preview: NATO: Conversation with colleague Colonel Jeff McCausland, CBS News, regarding the facts of the annual nuclear weapon exercise held by NATO in October. More on NATO tonight.

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 16 October 2024

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Preview: NATO: Conversation with colleague Colonel Jeff McCausland, CBS News, regarding the facts of the annual nuclear weapon exercise held by NATO in October. More on NATO tonight.

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This is John Batcher, a conversation with my colleague Colonel Jeff McCausen, the United States Army retired CBS News about nuclear weapons exercise held every year by NATO.

0:44.6

This exercise in early October, Jeff tells me, to prepare for the worst day in the history

0:50.2

of mankind, a nuclear weapon in the 21st century, either side, anyone. It would end what

0:58.5

we understand to be history in Europe and begin something, an anarchy, a nightmare.

1:05.0

I've recently gone again through the results of the two bombs that were dropped in anger in 1945.

1:12.0

Long after the bombs have been forgotten by the birds and the

1:17.8

atmosphere and the terrain of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The damage continues into the third and fourth generation,

1:26.0

the doubts, the threats, the fear. One bomb. Hiroshima, not a very big bomb, a little bigger bomb in Nagasaki. In any

1:37.1

event, you want peace, you prepare for war, and that's NATO NATO but still a nuclear weapon it's a terror weapon it's

1:46.1

not a weapon for a battlefield doesn't at least that's what I'm told This is Colonel Jeff McCausen describing the NATO nuclear exercise annual event involving aircraft and personnel from many different nations participating.

2:05.0

Always looking at the fact that Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin continue to threaten now and again nuclear weapons because of Ukraine conflict. air force and Navy exercise involving

2:18.4

aircraft. We certainly were aware of this type of exercise which is called steadfast noon occurring. An annual

2:26.8

exercise has gone on for many years normally the first couple of weeks of

2:30.1

October involves a couple of thousand Allied military personnel, about 60 aircraft.

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