But there are lots of arguments. The one interesting surprise that we point out in the historical record is that the United States went to great lengths, greater lengths than we perhaps realized in the past, to keep its friends and allies nonnuclear van itd even its enemies. Countries ranging from west germany to japan to south korea and australia, italy and sweden, the list goes on and on. In fact, issued a willingness to work with its adversary, the soviet union, against its allies to accomplish it. The third important question is an age old one how much is enough . In other words, what are the fourth and strategy requirements for Nuclear Deterrence . And are they different than the requirement for assuring allies . Can a state achieve meaningful nuclear superiority, and if so, what are the benefits of achieving such privacy . This is a comics question, but during the cold war, there were two leading views. Many of the academic and think tank analyst, renowned thinkers like bernard b
The professor. Im fascinated by his review of the u. S. Arsenal and the questions that he posed and the puzzles that he talked about are spot on. The a very interesting conversations and necessary. I might yield a little bit of a bucket of cold water myself because i will speak with a little more certainty but i will say i think he raises fair points about how certain we can be about some of our tried and true assumptions related to nuclear waepaoeapons and deterrents. As you heard, i served for almost 39 years in uniform. Much associated with the Strategic Forces so the opinions you would hear from me are mine and they will have a military flavor to them. As you heard i will take a minute and i will piggyback on what professor gavin said. I think his points bear repeating. Let me do it with a little bit of my own military slant. No question about it Nuclear Weapons have occupied a unique space since august of 1945. I would assert while Nuclear Weapons were conceived to win a war, shor
At the end of the day this makes no sense. My husband was a veteran. Went for the vietnam war. When he was gone, it was the worst thing in the whole entire world. Especially when they are whening him especially they miss most of this and that. Especially at the end of the day you need help with veterans. Host what you think . Should the general have to go . Caller you cant just not know about a whole cover up. He has computers, he has this, he has that. Host thank you. A republican there. Cruiser has this. ForWashington Post intuition sekis testimony from last week, concluding that if obama wants to resolve this debacle, he will need a less passive secretary. Secretary who became in january 2009, is not up or go visitor to the obama white house. He visited the white house 33 times, according to the official visitor logs, roughly one visit for every two months of his time in that position. That is less than some cabinet officials with higher profile eric holder visited five times. The n
Continues. Ben we want to welcome fitzgerald, Program Director for technology and National Security at the center for a new american security, here to talk about the Justice Department filing espionage charges against chinese hackers. Let me begin with attorney general eric holder yesterday when he outlined the indictment against these Chinese Military officials. [video clip] maintainpla officers about this unauthorized access to computers to steal information that would be useful to competitors in china, including stateowned enterprises. In some cases, they stole from secrets that would have been an official to Chinese Companies at the time that they were stolen. In others, they stole sensitive internal communications that would provide a competitor or adversary in litigation with insight into the strategy and vulnerabilities of the american entity. The hacking appears to have been conducted for no other reason than to advantage stateowned companies and other interests and china at th
And he will have a fascinating report on how the battlefield experience shaped the vision of one of hollywoods most iconic directors. From nbc news in washington meet the press with david gregory. Good morning. On a particularly busy sunday morning, Bowe Bergdahl was transferred immediatelyhgk afghanistan to a u. S. Medical center in germany. Earlier i was joined exclusively from afghanistan by defense secretary chuck hagel, but first our chief pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski has the remarkable story of Sergeant Bergdahls capture, detention, and release. Reporter in the white house rose garden with president obama late saturday, Bowe Bergdahls parents sounded totally overwhelmed by the news. We will continue to stay strong for bowe while he recovers. Thank you. Thank you so much. We just cant communicate the words this morning when we heard from the president. Reporter five years ago in june 2009, private Bowe Bergdahl walked away from his combat outpost in afghanistan and was