Council or Foreign Relations since 2003. Today were here convenes to listen to Richard Haass the prolific author and academic who just came out with yet another book entitled not very ambushesly as he said, slightly ambushesly the world, a brief history in 300 pages. He calls it a little bit of a departure from his previous books. I want to start because it was only after you turned in the manuscript that the world was confront by the covid19 pandemic, and in the roughly two months since that happened, this crisis has highlighted so many of the themes and concepts you tackle in the book. So i wanted to just ask you outright, what does the pandemic tell us about the world right now . Well, thank you, juju, thank you for doing this. Thanks always to everybody on the call. Hope everybody is well and safe as we all get through this one day at a time or as ive said, one groundhog day at a time. What i think the pandemic tells us first and for most is that the world matters. Thats perhaps an
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A u. S. Warship in the persian gulf accompanied by a bomber plan since washingtons abandonment of the nuclear deal with iran in may 2018 the situation in one of the most volatile regions in the world has been escalating and iran consequently resumed enrichment of uranium in the process itself violating the multinational treaty. Some fear this could put the country on the threshold to becoming a nuclear arms state. Meanwhile the i. N. F. Treaty between the us and russia banning land based intermediate range Nuclear Missiles has effectively collapsed the Nuclear Powers in adversaries of old are now developing new weapons and new strategies. Are we seeing a return to the times of the cold war is the world at risk of a new global arms race 30 years since the last one ended or has it already begun. You know. A Nuclear Bunker under the center of nuremberg built decades ago during the cold war there used to be around 2000 bunkers like this across germany their purpose to provide shelter for a