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This is the omnibus. Okay. You have accessed entry 1429.

I S.1305.

Certificate number 25154, white trains.

You know, a lot of the topics that I introduce into the omnibus have to do with the male grooming male grooming but also the era of nuclear weapons

of nuclear weapons because I and when I say the era of nuclear weapons, because I, and when I say the era of nuclear weapons, obviously it starts in 1945.

And then it's a hyphen and then there's no ending date.

Yeah, that's right. And it kind of, the Cold War ostensibly ended in the very beginning of the 1990s and the tension

around the sort of first strike,

you know, the potential apocalypse that loomed large throughout the Cold War,

that sort of dissipated and in a way, there was a brief period where it felt like maybe

there were rogue nuclear weapons that were being pilfered from the former Soviet Union and...

I assumed there were, but we're still here.

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