[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
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 mb 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 brou
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 mkinds 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 bro
Host it is good to have you with us. Les President Donald Trump responded to the new york truck attacked by calling for a crackdown on immigration. He specifically called for an end to the green card lottery scheme and says immigration should be based on merit in the future. Pres. Trump this man that came in, or whatever you want to call him, brought in with him other people. He was the point of contact the primary point of contact and this is preliminarily, for 23 people that potentially came in with him and that is not acceptable. We want to get rid of chain migration, and we wanted to do that for a long time. I have been wanting to do that for a long time. We will ask congress to work on that immediately. Host that was the u. S. President there. Police in the u. S. Have named the man suspected of driving the truck. Shhe is a 29yearold from uzbekistan. He was shot yesterday by police and is currently being treated b and a nearby hospital. He drove along the hudson river, plowing into
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