PREVIEW: #NONNUCLEAR MISSILES: Conversation with colleague Henry Sokolski, NPEC, re the Great Power contest to develop ICBMs with non-nuclear warheads to destroy infrastructure and communication - and the necessity of space-based targeting nodes. More in
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 21 June 2024
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| 0:26.7 | contain forward-looking statements which may not be realized. |
| 0:30.3 | This is John Batchett, conversation with my colleague Henry Sakhowski, the Executive Director of the Non-Proliferation Policy Education Center, about the immediate future and the contest between the powers, China, Russia, and the United States. |
| 0:46.4 | Non-nuclear missiles, that is missiles that do not have a nuclear warhead and are meant to |
| 0:52.4 | destroy nodes, communication nodes, internet, water, the infrastructure |
| 0:59.9 | of a culture as well as military strikes. That is the immediate future. Medium |
| 1:06.9 | range and short-range missiles now in hand. Long-range under development, we |
| 1:12.4 | believe, intercontinental non-nuclear missiles. |
| 1:17.0 | What does this mean for the future? |
| 1:19.0 | Henry describes very carefully, it means space is vital to targeting to maintaining |
| 1:27.0 | the target list of non-nuclear missiles as they traverse intercontinentally. |
| 1:34.0 | Also, Henry speaks to defenses, active defense and passive defense. |
| 1:39.0 | What is that? |
| 1:40.0 | Here's Henry Sikalski. |
| 1:42.0 | More of this in future. Thank you. |
| 1:44.0 | Yeah. Space is going to be very important to moving all that information to the missile |
| 1:52.0 | so that it can find its target and do so in a timely fashion. Fair enough. |
| 1:59.0 | That's going to make control of space a major contest and you raise the point of defenses. We tend to put |
| 2:09.8 | a tremendous amount of emphasis on active defenses. |
| 2:13.8 | And okay, it makes sense. |
| 2:17.6 | But I think what's going to come into fashion |
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