Because he is a Foreign Affairs consultant and analyst all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate kevin let me go to you first in washington you know i read the report quite thoroughly i was quite stunned as i said in the in the introduction ill reach of my three takeaways here the report exaggerates exaggerates perceived threats to the u. S. Number two it fuses conventional and nuclear war and pushes for the development of low yield nucular weapons i mean thats quite stunning if you look at the history of arms control and by the way its going to cost about one point three trillion dollars what were your takeaways from the report kevin in washington. Well i think your title for the show is very apt i mean dan ellsberg in his new book the doomsday machine confessions of a Nuclear War Planner said at the time that dr strangelove was released in the theaters in the early one nine hundred sixty s. That it was nonfiction so
It will be able to do much, much more. We will be able to send commands to spacecraft around the moon and around mars, and also receive data coming back from the moon and mars. So in 2020 when a mars rover is on the surface of mars and detects life, we could send that data back and be received by this antenna here. Direct to cornwall . Direct to cornwall. And cornwalls ambitions to join the space race dont end here. Newquay airport. Today passengers were flying to dublin and manchester, but soon it could be much further. Because this county, which relies on tourism, wants to take things to the next level. The airport is bidding to turn its two mile runway into a commercial spaceport, hoping for a share of a multi billion pound industry. The millions for goonhilly are coming from the local enterprise partnership, and some ask if its the best use of public money right now. One local baker delivering space themed pasties today believes this poor county needs to aim for the stars. The perc
Is their military doc i dont think i dont. Listen i like the doctrine im not convinced however that it would always guide russian behavior i want to get back to the world youre describing where the United States and russia are both very clear that they dont feel each other as adversaries and they dont envision you needing these weapons against reading that read the work thats the world reading that report is very adversarial i mean almost every few paragraphs its very adversarial i mean im sorry michael but it was directed against the United States in china ok ten seconds before we go to the break go ahead michael. It was directed against russia and china youre right and i agree that its a unfortunate state but i think it was brought a bond brought upon largely by perceived russian aggressiveness in this domain whether you agree with that perception or not thats what ok well so were going to go to a break here but i want to point out to our viewers that it wasnt russia that overthrew t
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Bbc executive, a tsar in performance and in academia, but now hes brought it all together in a memoir called making a noise. From his own experience, getting it right and getting it wrong, as he puts it. And from the people he has worked with. Its more than a personal portrait its a picture, drawn from an intriguing angle of what kind of country we live in today. Welcome. It is a story of modern britain, isnt it, seen through some of our institutions in the arts . And of course, here in the bbc. Yes, i think it is, and i think that what it is is trying to understand what makes major organisations work. This tussle over the last 20, 30 years as to how efficient organisations have to be. The answer is, yes, of course, everybody has learned about how to run an organisation properly, but the interesting question. And i hope it comes out in the book. Is how do you combine being efficient with being true to what the organisation is about . The values. And we always believed, and i think the