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to others it is recently said that it wants to promote tourism. clearly there are connections to the international community and i think that the kind of hot cars are going to have some impact but it may take some time. from human rights watch thanks very much for being with us thank you. this is either of you is live from berlin coming up next a w documentary looks at the new cold war we re now though from a brian thomas in the entire team thanks so much for being with us. i. hear what s coming up for the book going to sleep you have plenty to talk about if you want to delve you know it s tough to take a look a little bit means for the title of course. the going to sleep every weekend
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Disarmament he warns of possible dangers the last place russian missiles would go would be the b. sixty one sites ah there was so many hurdles for these things getting off the ground you would need to look at the planes with the bombs because the bombs the plane the bombs on together these would need to take off then this is all presuming that russian missiles are coming and then once they re flying you need to refuel them in and and then you would need to fly them into russian aspace pla passed russian ballistic missile defense before dropping freefall bombs compared the house to firing a missile there is huge risks with these things and they really sickly would never get off the ground. and some experts say that the aircraft could be easily targeted well they are refueling. so why would germany s air force want to use nuclear weapons at all. because highest. on the one hand we have
Member states that say existing stocks of weapons are outdated need to be replaced . christensen points out this process is already underway. as far as we can figure out the increased accuracy is about three times better than than it is with the existing weapons now what that means is that not only can you add strike targets facilities much more effectively but you can also choose lower explosive yield settings for an attack that today requires a much higher yield sitting so that s more useable it s less radioactive fallout so it s a concern that we re making nuclear weapons more useable damage is on the bluff that this weapon can be employed in ways its predecessor could not be. and russia will see that and say fine if the west is doing this then we also want to modernize and improve our weapons that s all this is tier one that could create
Weapons but they re still here in about one hundred fifty of them but only that one time she got her to the graphic last. if a conflict arose these weapons could also be delivered by german air force planes. americans have bases in europe but there are also four countries in europe that have host base arrangement as they call it call it a nuclear sharing arrangements germany the netherlands belgium italy and possibly turkey so those countries are the ones who sort of serve a soto nuclear strike role where their aircraft would be equipped and handed over nuclear weapons in times of war. until just a few years ago all political parties in the german one is talking have been calling for the nuclear weapons to be removed. these nato fighter jets are on patrol over the baltic states their mission is to intercept any russian military