Spacebridge 2 – Foreign Policy According to Freud
Radiotopia Presents: We're Doing the Wiz
Radiotopia
4.3 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The first two-way satellite links between the US and USSR are strange, disorganized, and sometimes a little magical. Battling language and technological barriers, Soviet and American musicians, computing pioneers, scientists, and even kids find a way to stage a series of exchanges across the skies — at first awkward, but growing more meaningful as Cold War paranoia ratchets ever higher.
Spacebridge is a production of Showcase from PRX’s Radiotopia with additional funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Our Russian content partner is the history site Arzamas.Academy.
Find out more and listen to the previous series, The Stoop, Ways of Hearing, The Polybius Conspiracy, Secrets, Errthang, and The Great God of Depression at radiotopia.fm/showcase.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Radiotopia Presents, from PRX's Radiotopia. |
| 0:09.9 | So far, our peoples are virtually strangers to one another. |
| 0:14.1 | Over a generation, nuclear strategy has been governed by the theory of mutual assured destruction. |
| 0:19.6 | We've seen each other through distorted mass. |
| 0:21.6 | ...and Reagan turned 30 years of strategic thinking on its head. |
| 0:25.6 | It is that we embark on a program to counter the awesome Soviet missile threat, |
| 0:30.6 | but we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic... |
| 0:33.6 | ...and when his proposal for a space age defense system against Soviet political... |
| 0:38.3 | ...aute balance of the |
| 0:40.3 | ...a revolutionary change in U.S. nuclear strategy. |
| 0:46.3 | This video has been declared unclassified by the Department of Defense |
| 0:50.3 | The House of the Balance of Terror at which the two superpowers |
| 0:55.0 | have held the judge of the population. |
| 0:57.0 | The United Nations Security Council met in emergency |
| 1:00.0 | second of the power. |
| 1:01.0 | And now two great nations stand armed and ready to go to war. |
| 1:06.0 | Upset the balance of terror. |
| 1:08.0 | And yet... |
| 1:09.0 | Let me share with you a vision of the future which offers hope |
| 1:12.6 | we haven't really met |
| 1:14.6 | I was working in |
| 1:22.6 | summer |
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