Will Hypersonic Missiles Kill us All?

Bro History

Politics, History, News, Society & Culture

4.1 • 939 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

China recently completed a successful test of a hypersonic missile, and the media has been comparing its accomplishment to when the Soviet Union beat the US to space by launching Sputnik. Today we breakdown what a hypersonic missile is, how it works, and whether it lives up to the hype. We also compare the current arms race for hypersonic missiles to the “missile gap” arms race during the cold war. Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brohistory #216 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	As a long time foreign correspondent, I've worked in lots of places, but nowhere is important
0:07.0	to the world as China.
0:09.2	I'm Jane Perlaz, former Beijing Bureau Chief for the New York Times.
0:13.0	Join me on my new podcast, Face Off, US versus China,
0:18.0	where I'll take you behind the scenes in the tumultuous US-China relationship.
0:23.0	Find face-off wherever you get your podcasts. You're going to be. What's up everyone? What's up,
0:43.0	to be?
0:44.0	What's
0:45.0	?
0:46.0	What's what
0:45.0	what's up
0:52.0	what's up everyone welcome to another episode of Bro history.
0:55.0	It's Henry Zamoda and Danny Abdel Jabbar.
0:58.0	What's up, brother?
1:00.0	Chilly, man, as per usual and happy Halloween to you brother.
1:05.0	Happy Halloween. Yeah this should be released on Sunday so we're we're recording this
1:09.9	podcast on Thursday 28th. So this should be released on Sunday Halloween and
1:16.7	Danny what are you going to be for Halloween because I know you take this very
1:20.8	seriously. Yeah man I'm the self-proclaimed king of
1:24.0	Halloween I spend way too much money on Halloween costumes and shit like that.
1:28.5	This year I'll be going as the devil.
1:39.0	Sounds pretty basic, but I've got this ridiculous mask that's got this giant row of teeth. I'll show you later, but it kind of looks like you ever watch Attack on Titan the anime or at least familiar with
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