#Ukraine: What is nuclear sharing? forward deployment? & What is to be done? Henry Sokolski, NPEC
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🗓️ 5 August 2023
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#Ukraine: What is nuclear sharing? forward deployment? & What is to be done? Henry Sokolski, NPEC
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/africa/other/russian-nuclear-weapons-to-stay-in-belarus-unless-us-nato-quit-hostile-policy-diplomat/ar-AA1eAkI5
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| 0:35.2 | This is CBS Eye in the World I'm John Batchy with my colleague Henry Sikowski of the |
| 0:39.1 | Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. A new issue to me, Henry, what is |
| 0:44.5 | forward deployment of nuclear sharing? What is it that there was terms of art referring to? |
| 0:48.9 | They have to do with the practice that began in the mid-50s, roughly, |
| 0:57.3 | when the United States did not have long-range bombers, much less intercontinental ballistic |
| 1:03.8 | missiles, and could not reach or deal with the Russian military formations that we thought |
| 1:11.2 | were quite large, that we would have to target with nuclear explosives since we didn't have |
| 1:18.2 | enough conventional forces to stop them. The decision was made, well, let's move our nuclear |
| 1:25.7 | warheads onto NATO or Western European soil so that they could be on the ready if the Russians ever |
| 1:34.4 | invade. It also was a condition militarily, technically, at that time, that we had a very |
| 1:43.2 | difficult time aiming our weapons. We did not have precision-guided munitions, and when you have |
| 1:50.6 | a large mass of military formations coming at you, the thought was, well, we have to use |
| 1:58.4 | pretty large explosives since we can't aim, and nuclear weapons seem to be the answer to that problem. |
| 2:05.4 | Now, that sort of military technical conditions lacking long-range reposition have all gone away. |
| 2:14.8 | It's been 70-some odd years, that a lot has happened in military science, but we still have the |
| 2:21.7 | weapons in Western Europe and Belgium, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France, of course, |
| 2:31.7 | had nuclear weapons with their own. They're in Turkey. I may have gotten one or two countries |
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