This is Intelligence Matters, with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morrell.

On the small globe in which we are trying to live and survive, that particularly as China

became, came to have a major nuclear arsenal, which it has had now for a decade.

It would be impossible to have a nuclear war without the US being destroyed because we

live in a so-called mad world as Goldwater strategists reminded us in which even if I do

my best to destroy you, I can't prevent your retaliating in a way that destroys me.

Graham Allison is a professor of government at Harvard University.

Graham is the founding dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and until

2017 he served as director of the school's Belfre Center for Science at International Affairs.

Graham's interests include nuclear weapons, Russia, China, and National Security Decision

Making.

Graham joins us today to take a special look at the views on China of Singapore's founding

father, Lee Kwan-Yu.

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I'm Michael Morrell, and this is Intelligence Matters.

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