#RUSSIA: #UK: #NUKES: Back to the future with B-61 nuclear gravity bombs. Peter Huessy, president of Geostrategic Analysis and a fellow at the National Institute for Deterrence Studies,. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
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#RUSSIA: #UK: #NUKES: Back to the future with B-61 nuclear gravity bombs. Peter Huessy, president of Geostrategic Analysis and a fellow at the National Institute for Deterrence Studies,. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/01/26/us-nuclear-bombs-lackenheath-raf-russia-threat-hiroshima/
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| 0:00.0 | This is a series of CBSi and the world. I'm John Bachelor with Gordon Chang at |
| 0:08.4 | Gordon Chiang Kedstone Newsweek in the hill. Nuclear Weapons in Europe the headline in the Hill, Nuclear Weapons in Europe, the headline in the |
| 0:15.0 | Telegraph and picked up by The Times of London. U.S. to station nuclear weapons in |
| 0:21.5 | UK to counter threat from Russia. We welcome |
| 0:25.1 | Peter Husey, our guide on nuclear weapons. He's president of geostrategic |
| 0:29.3 | analysis. He is a fellow at the National Institute for Deterrence Studies. |
| 0:34.0 | Peter, a very good evening to you. |
| 0:36.0 | Vladimir Putin has been speaking of nukes as long as the |
| 0:39.0 | invasion of Ukraine goes on. |
| 0:41.0 | From my understanding he's been boasting about deploying |
| 0:44.9 | nuclear weapons to Belarus more than once. There is the possibility of nuclear |
| 0:50.2 | weapons in other parts of the former Soviet Empire, now part of the Russian Federation. |
| 0:55.8 | The news is that the U.S. is planning on stationing nuclear weapons at anF. base where they've been before in Great Britain. |
| 1:07.4 | What kind of news is this? |
| 1:09.6 | Does this change our posture towards Russia? |
| 1:12.4 | Why are we being told this? Grieveing to you, Peter. |
| 1:14.8 | Good evening, John and Officer Gordon. It's a continuation, John, of a policy adopted right after the Russian invasion of Ukraine that in addition |
| 1:27.0 | to our airplanes and their gravity bombs deployed in, for example, Germany and the Netherlands, we would add Britain to the list of countries |
| 1:35.4 | where combined we have about 200 gravity bombs, which bombs fall out of the bottom of an airplane, |
| 1:41.9 | which means the airplane has to go over to the target and find it and drop it. |
| 1:45.8 | So it's different than a missile where you can launch from anywhere. |
| 1:49.4 | And of course, these are the only warheads we have outside the United States except for in the oceans. |
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