Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder.

Wish you were here.

Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever you listen to podcasts.

This is John Battlestar.

Conversation with Henry Sakhalski, my colleague at the Non-Proliferation Policy Education Center.

Not only about a nuclear war, George Will writes a chilling column about what nuclear war will look like, imminently, but also about nuclear

war in space in low-Earth orbit on onto the moon, commanding the heights, and Henry Sakhowski begins the conversation by saying that our adversaries, that's China and Russia, mean to dominate low-Earth orbit and the Moon.

With weaponry.

Here's Henry describing the immediate future, planning now.

The Moon race is not about planning a flag. It's about the high ground.

Henry Sikovsky, Non-Farland Policy Education Center, Nukes in Space.

Yeah, I think it has.

I mean, the one thing that I think of both Trump and Biden

administrations in the Pentagon have been leaning

into with more enthusiasm and intellectual energy than most is trying to figure out how to

command space, what that will require and how to use it and leverage it so that our non-nuclear systems and nuclear

systems and our commercial systems all prosper and are not put at risk.

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