Brangham all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Brangham the tumult at the white house continues to churn at a pace unprecedented in an american presidency. Anthony scaramucci, just 10 days on the job of Communications Director is out. The move comes on john kellys first day as President Trumps chief of staff. Our own Lisa Desjardins is here to walk us through these shake ups at the top. Welcome, lisa. Thank you. Pretty busy set of days here. Walk us through the time like of how we got here. To do that, west go back to ten days ago. Thats when we saw A
Theyre able to do. Woodruff all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill the earth rumbled today in north korea with a big bang that shook capitals around the world. The communist regime declared it had carried out a thermonuclear explosion, which if it turns out to be true, would represent a quantum leap beyond anything its managed before. The nuclear news was trumpeted on north korean state television. translated the First Hydrogen bomb test was successfully conducted at 10 00 on january 6th, 2016. If
In 1991. Instead of one big, mysterious country called the ussr, the world got 15 new countries. Armenia, azerbaijan, belarus, georgia, kazakhstan, latvia, ukraine, uzbekistan, russia, of course russias the biggest. The second largest is kazakhstan. And if there is one thing thats maybe even more amazing, looking back at that time and the fact that the u. S. Had no idea it was all coming, the only thing that competes with our ignorance for being as unbelievable in retrospect is the story of what happened to all the freaking Nuclear Weapons over there once that country spun apart. Kazakhstan alone, if kazakhstan alone had just held on to the Nuclear Weapons that they had on their territory once they became an independent country, they would have become the fourth Largest Nuclear armed state in the world. But they decided when they became independent that they did not want Nuclear Weapons. They had tons of them, but they voluntarily gave up all of those Nuclear Weapons. They gave up bein
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The white house called the cia to find out what was going on over there in berlin, and the cia said, yeah, were watching the same thing you are. We dont know anything about it. Were just watching it on cnn. It was amazing. They had no idea it was going to happen. And within two years of the berlin wall coming down in 1989, the soviet union ceased to exist in 1991. Instead of one big, mysterious country called the ussr, the world got 15 new countries. Armenia, azerbaijan, belarus, estonia, georgia, kazakhstan, latvia, ukraine, uzbekistan, of course russia. Russia is the biggest. The second largest is kazakhstan. And if there is one thing thats maybe even more amazing, looking back at that time and the fact that the u. S. Had no idea it was all coming, the only thing that competes with our ignorance for being as unbelievable in retrospect is the story of what happened to all the freaking Nuclear Weapons over there once that country spun apart. Kazakhstan alone, if kazakhstan alone had ju