#StrategicWeapons: The lost generation of Arms Control. Henry Sokolski, NPEC.
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🗓️ 18 November 2023
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#StrategicWeapons: The lost generation of Arms Control. Henry Sokolski, NPEC.
https://media.defense.gov/2022/Oct/27/2003103845/-1/-1/1/2022-NATIONAL-DEFENSE-STRATEGY-NPR-MDR.PDF
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| 0:22.0 | offer ends December 3rd, 2023. Open to UK and N.I. Guardian. This is CBS and the world. I'm John Bachelor. Arms Control. I read from a new document from the State Department, |
| 0:41.0 | report on deterrence in a world of nuclear |
| 0:44.4 | multi-polarity. The paragraph that most interests, the United States is at |
| 0:51.0 | risk of having an arms control lost generation with no direct experience |
| 0:56.6 | with negotiating or implementing arms control agreements. |
| 1:01.3 | Investing in human capital should also focus on developing early and mid-career arms control experts across the interagency, even as the Department of State focuses first on strengthening capacity in its own foreign and |
| 1:15.0 | civil service ranks. |
| 1:16.8 | To help me interpret this, I welcome Henry Sikalsky, the Executive Director of the |
| 1:21.5 | Non-Proliferation Policy Education Center, which is a form of arms control. |
| 1:26.0 | And I mentioned to you, Henry, that the Biden administration's October 2022 report on Strategic Forces says that we're going to upgrade the |
| 1:36.4 | Minuteman 3 to the Sentinel. We're going to upgrade the B52 to carry |
| 1:42.2 | weapons of nuclear weapons again. |
| 1:44.4 | We're going to build the B-21 radar bomber to deliver nuclear weapons. |
| 1:48.8 | We're going to upgrade the Ohio class missile boat to the Columbia class Class and we're spending an enormous |
| 1:54.9 | amount of money on cruise missiles to replace gravity bombs that can deliver |
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