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
A Nuclear Catastrophe is actually greater now was during the cold war and were entered into a new arms race is dangerousness cost is the one in the cold war tom if thats 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 it when the cold war ended and so as bill said people have moved on their 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 into perry 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 the worried the people had the fear the people had about a Nuclear Catastrophe just ended with that and they just dont want to pick it up again or soon again but
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