Great decisions is produced by the Foreign Policy association in association with thomson reuters, funding for great decisions is provided by Price Waterhouse coopers llp. dramatic music [radio host] a short time ago, an american airplane dropped one bomb on hiroshima. That bomb has more power than 20,000 tons of tnt. [narrator] the seeds of Nuclear Proliferation were sown when the us attacked hiroshima and nagasaki at the end of world war ii. It was mankinds first exposure to a weapon that would forever alter the calculus of war. The introduction of then called atomic weapons in 1945 had a very Significant Impact on geopolitics. At the time, i think all leaders were aware that this was something qualitatively different, they werent sure what it meant. When one plane can inflict the same level of damage that it previously took thousands of planes and maybe multiple raids by thousands of planes to inflict, i think everyone realized things would be different. The ending of world war ii b
Ys digital activists hold their annual gettogether in a clandestine setting. Sarah welcome to the program. My name is sarah harman. Thank you for joining us. Aid workers in syria have begun evacuating 29 critically ill people from a besieged rebel town in Eastern Ghouta. The evacuations were part of an agreement between the Syrian Government and rebels. The u. N. Has drawn up a list of some 500 people to be evacuated from the damascus suburb. It faces severe shortages of food, fuel and medicine as winter approaches. Reporter for this little girl, its not just the end of a nightmare, its a chance to stay alive. She was one of the first of almost 30 critically ill people evacuated from Eastern Ghouta. For weeks, International Aid organizations have been calling on syrian president Bashar Alassad to allow hundreds of people in desperate need of medical attention to leave the besieged suburb. Tuesday night saw the first of them get into ambulances and leave. Where they are in ghouta there
[narrator] founded in the aftermath of world war ii, the European Union had an ambitious goal, to end wars in europe. One of the great and most positive historical events of the last several centuries was the creation of the european coal and Steel Community in the 1940s and 50s, that led to the common market, and that led to the European Union and to the european currency and a linking of former adversaries, namely germany and france in constant union. What began essentially as an economic idea, the basic idea was something that was called functionalism that is basically if you have Economic Cooperation and economic integration, that will lead functionally to other types of integration especially political integration. Most people in the u, most voters, the general public, have believed that the eu is a defense mechanism against a dangerous world. It was a defense mechanism against the soviet union. It was then a defense mechanism through integrating as markets against the rise of jap
The french actress Catherine Deneuve attacks the Metoo Movement. She accuses it of conducting a witchhunt against the men. Is she right . Have the accusers of abusers gone too far, or has she simply missed the point . Brent im brent goff. Its good to have you with us. A long day ahead and a lot of work to do. Those were the only comments by politicians as they arrived this morning to begin day four of exploratory talks about forming a new Coalition Government here in germany. The parties have agreed not to brief the press for fear of discovering scuffering any deal. Angela merkels conservatives and centerleft social democrats have set themselves a deadline of tomorrow to find out if they have enough Common Ground to Start Formal Coalition talks to give germany a government. Reporter day four of the exploratory talks between chancellor merkels conservatives and the social democrats. But much remains unclear. The parties have agreed on a news blackout, so information about any breakthrou
As his First Anniversary in office approaches, we look at the man and the media. It is fashion week here in berlin, where we find more and more designers abandoning the runway in a bid to gain credibility in a world that has grown more and more critical of the catwalk culture. Brent im brent goff, it is good to have you with us. The two koreas are taking a step many hope will lead down the path of reconciliation. In the Demilitarized Zone that separates north and south korea, representatives met today and agreed to march under one flag at the Opening Ceremony of next months Winter Olympics. They agreed to set a send a joint womens Ice Hockey Team if the ioc approves. It is a small step toward lessening tensions but it will not be the first time the koreas have marched together. At the 2003 university games, they entered the Korean Unification flag. Since 2000 they have marched together at three olympic games. I am joined here to my far right by a korea expert from berlin, and next door