Hi everyone and welcome to today's discussion. I'm Glenn Dyson and I'm joined today by

Alexander Mercuris and Professor Theodore Postol. Welcome.

Nice to be here. Thank you.

So, yeah, for those not aware, Professor Postol is from MIT and also is one of the leading experts on missile technologies.

Besides his immense technical expertise, he also has background from the Pentagon.

And if you're researching arms control, then most likely you have come across this work.

Certainly I have.

And yeah, I must say, I've been looking forward to

this discussion as I cited you frequently. Ever since my PhD from 2010, as one of my case studies

was on the US withdrawal of this ABM treaty and NATO's development of strategic missile defense

with the AGI system. So anyways, I always continue to come across the work of Professor Postol,

so yes, this is a great pleasure.

And I thought we could start with a very new development,

which is curious about the implications of this delivery of American missiles to Germany in

they will be sent in 2026.

This is the, yeah, this is, well, I guess, set to disrupt the nuclear stability in Europe.

So I guess this has been going on for a while ever since the US, not just withdrew from the ABM treaty,

but then the INF Treaty in 2019.

We now see that the US has announced it will deploy these missiles to Germany,

which, if I'm not mistaken, could possibly reach

Moscow in two to three minutes. Now, this seems to escalate the threat of first strike.

And I was wondering if you could explain what this missile are, why they're important,

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