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
dramatic instrumental [narrator] great decisions is produced by the Foreign Policy association. In association with thomson reuters. Funding for great decisions is provided by pricewaterhousecoopers llp. [narrator] everywhere around us are signs of international trade. The basic idea of trade as economists have understood it now for two centuries is that trade expands the pie, it makes the economy more efficient, it directs resources to comparative advantages as economists say. But it also changes the income distribution. Weve come through this very long period in which the United States went from being a relatively closed economy to being quite an open one. And the result of that was a lot of competition for jobs, for wages, for export opportunities in sectors that really hadnt faced competition before. [narrator] advances in communication, technology, and transport have thrown open the door to trade like no other time in history. Globalization is history, history is globalization, no
dramatic instrumental [narrator] great decisions is produced by the Foreign Policy association. In association with thomson reuters. Funding for great decisions is provided by pricewaterhousecoopers llp. [narrator] everywhere around us are signs of international trade. The basic idea of trade as economists have understood it now for two centuries is that trade expands the pie, it makes the economy more efficient, it directs resources to comparative advantages as economists say. But it also changes the income distribution. Weve come through this very long period in which the United States went from being a relatively closed economy to being quite an open one. And the result of that was a lot of competition for jobs, for wages, for export opportunities in sectors that really hadnt faced competition before. [narrator] advances in communication, technology, and transport have thrown open the door to trade like no other time in history. Globalization is history, history is globalization, no
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