[applause] vice pres. Biden hi. Thank you all for being here. I to want to remind everyone this event has been set up to adhere to social distancing guidelines. Keep your mask on when you are speaking. Thank you for being here. At the end of the program, we will give you guidance to take a socially distanced photo. Vice pres. Biden in case you want one. I thought i was supposed to come up this way. Good afternoon, everyone. Lets get energy. My name is tim mahomes. I appreciate everyone being here. I want to thank reverend barker for your hospitality and for convening what we know is a very important discussion in our community. Vice president joe biden, dr. Jill biden is in the house, i believe, somewhere. [inaudible] she always does. Id like to welcome both of you here for what you know is a town of love, unity and compassion. You spent most of your career unifying people, bringing people together. Much like your hometown, scranton, youve often talked about family values. Working clas
Host back with our conversation with armstrong williams. You talked about economic are for two unity. That everybody you talked about economic opportunity. You will concede that not everybody gets that chance, though. I will probably surprise you. I believe everybody has the. Pportunity, a chance the bible tells us the poor will always be among us. Tells us that, people like myself and others are so thankful. Thank god fori his grace and mercy because i realize my life is not normal. Sometimes i feel it feels like a fantasy and i do not think i am anything special. I do not believe that. I could never explain why he blesses me so richly, but i want to bless others. Not in a way where i want to go out and boast that i support this or that because, but privately. I think it is more important to give than to receive. I think it is so more important than power. You cannot empower others without empowering yourself. Back to the part of your question that not everybody has the same parents.
Are still there and we never change them theyre still dangerous and in some ways theyre more dangerous than ever because people are focused on other issues and they simply dont see the dangers that we face and sent in to parry why isnt it discussed. Thats that course is too deep for me to answer psychological question to fundamentally. When the cold war ended the danger and the worried that people had the fear that people had about a Nuclear Catastrophe just ended with it and they just dont want to pick it up again and soon again but unfortunately the reality is that the danger is still very much there. You searched at a time that the defining era of United States Nuclear Policy is that its focused on the wrong threat. What he talked about was the wrong threat so the threat that were focused on a leftover threat from the cold war is the threat of an intentional attack from russia that is simply not a likely threat because it would be suicidal for russia to watch that attack any attack
We face today is blundering into nuclear war by mistake thats the threat we should focus on thats the right threat and by focusing on the wrong threat yesterdays threat of a russian intentional attack rationally making the threat of a blunder even worse. Hypothetically mr secretary give me an example of what would be a blundering threat i think the most obvious example is a false alarm that we have had now during the cold war 3 different false alarms. More of them i personally experienced by getting a phone call remember might it 3 oclock in the morning or i caught a call from a watch office a north American Intervention telling me this computer is showing 200 i. C. B. M. s on the way from the soviet union to the United States. It quickly added that he concluded as i thought he was calling me to see if i could help him figure out what had gone wrong with his computers i tell you i will never forget that moment and no one can ever tell me that the probability of a false alarm is theoret
True why well i think what happened is that a lot of policies that we had for the cold war for the arms race we had with the soviet union those policies never changed when the cold war ended and so as bill said people have moved on cerns have moved on to other issues but the old policies are still there and we never change them theyre still dangerous and in some ways theyre more dangerous than ever because people are focused on other issues and they simply dont see the dangers that we face and sent in to parry why isnt it discussed. Thats that course is too deep for me dance a psychological question to fundamentally when the cold war ended the danger and the worried the people had to fear the people had about a Nuclear Catastrophe just ended with it and they just dont want to pick it up again and soon again but unfortunately the reality is that the danger is still very much there. You certain tom that the defining air of United States Nuclear Policy is that its focused on the wrong thr