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story about savant. music under the swastika starts may 25th on dw, the southern networking posing and a new kid capable of strategic from the u. s. ballistic missiles cemetery in showing up at the shore, she brought him into the constriction sites in the middle of the chinese desert. you silos for intercontinental ballistic missiles. dozens of them. these recent examples of the 3 biggest of new p up how was displaying modernizing and increasing the us. there's no doubt in my mind that the, the risk of nuclear weapons coming into use is increasing and has increased significantly during the cold course. a system of the parents kept things in check

to me today that i'm more active to let's say for the nuclear order control treaties. all of that is under a lot of stress. the age of disarmament is over, nuclear still closed, growing again. so we stumbled into another and more dangerous new pay raise the the only time nuclear weapon square used in a conflict was in august 1945. when the us from sonya rashi, mountains like a saki in japan. this was the blast radius of the bomb dropped on hiroshima, push, killed up to 140000 people and this would be the devastation, 2 days, largest bombs and the american awesome. it would cost lucky the nuclear weapons having destroyed the world. yet, even though that could have happened during the cold war and

the number of nuclear warheads reached 70000 at the peak. this was due to the race between the soviet union and united states, both in 2000 nuclear tests, such as here. and this will get through the worst part of the competition today. yeah, i do not know, i hear of retaliation prevented both from pushing the button 1st. the principal calls mutually assured destruction. eventually, after the series of arms control treaties and the contents of the soviet union came mass us disarmament. the number of nuclear warheads went down to over 12000 to date . still enough to destroy the world multiple times. 9 countries have nukes, most keep the exact size of the us no secrets, but according to estimates to us and russia still the big players today. china is awesome, is much smaller than me growing. we get to that. and the countries like north korea,

india pac is done from the united kingdom. history of us believe to be one of those, but has never officially confirmed, it has nukes. but just as we start the nuclear dread was the thing of the nuclear stress test. start the 3 reasons, brush us war against dufrane, the contents of arms control and china's nuclear builds up. ever since russia who's going to say, you know, keep praying. the kremlin has made a series of new passwords like this, towards the western nations. most realize that we also have weapons that can hit targets on their territory and they have to do it all this really threatens a conflict with the use of nuclear weapons conflict them and the destruction of civilization, which i'm not sure when you're searching and see if it is that's right from the beginning of that war, of nuclear weapons were, was brought up rabbit, so to speak,

but by the russians to say to the west, listen, don't go him directly here and try to stop us. hans christensen is the director of the nuclear inflammation project at the federation of american scientists. the organization, advocates for transparency and risk reduction from nuclear weapons. we've seen the way they talk about needs of weapons and the potential role of different weapons involve uh, quite significantly, in the sense that it became more explicit by threatening to break the nuclear to food. and it's throwing the system off determines of balance. in 2023, he announced the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons 2 neighboring bella roofs. it's the 1st time russia since nuclear weapons outside of its own territory. this is where the nukes could be. storage and military depot and central mother was precious as a descending tactical nuclear weapons. but you have a range of a few 100 kilometers low i yields, and are supposed to have a battlefield purpose. these are different from strategic nuclear weapons,

which could wipe out an entire city, thousands of kilometers away. technical nuclear weapons and fell arrows are a threat to nato's eastern members. but russia, as believe to already have tactical nukes and come in and brought its wisdom exclaim, giving it a similar reach over nature territory. i interpret the better risk deployment decision more as a political signal, as opposed to being driven by military or strategic necessity on the russian side. no, no to as director for you. raise your at the james martin, center for nonproliferation studies. she specializes in russian foreign policy and arms control. i would contextualize this decision to, to move nuclear weapons to better was into this general array of measures that russia has taken in order to heighten the temperature and to make us in the west. feel that the risk of nuclear war is increasing due to russia,

nate to begin wrestling its own nuclear savers in europe, on the fronds and the, okay, you have to own nukes. there are some 100 nuclear warheads from the united states deployed to bases in belgium, the netherlands, germany. it's on the enter key to us, maintain control over the weapons. that's in a conflict. the bombs would be mounted on host nation war planes. here that you pilots, a training for just such a scenario. now preparations are running high to put u. s. nukes also have this database and the okay. just 100 kilometers northeast of london. it really started after rush was invasion of premier in 2014. that's when we started seeing real changes happening in the way the americans planned the role of nuclear weapons in defense of your us, the small so bringing its nuclear submarines and bummed us to europe more often like this. b 52 over stuck home. they're going further east. they're going into

areas where they happened. they didn't used to go at all. um, i mean, sometimes very offensive ways in march 2023, for example, in american b, 52 bomber conducted maneuvers over europe, heading towards st. petersburg and turning around just before it goes to russian f . space. in your face exercise. russia similar reflection as muscles like here in 2021. the bumper maneuver over the bowl succeed in the past. the us and russia had at least notified each other in his bonds. the vote exercises like this that was part of the new start treaty is also kept the list of the number of strategic nuclear weapons. the ones which can destroy the whole cities of the being launched from a different continent. this and other agreements between the 2 sides are designed, those trusts through their reputation. and let russia in the us to reduce desktop

fire. that's after attacking your train, rushes suspended. participation in the treaty and already before in 2019 on this from to feed us out of the treatise, depending mid range missiles like these something between tactical and strategic weapons, especially with trump. plus, i'm happy that the treaty does not include u. s. rivals in asia. we really have no choice. perhaps we can negotiate a different agreement, adding china and others. or perhaps we can't, in which case we will out spend and out end of a all others by far aggressive frederick for just for just the new new order. today, 6 out of the 9 new just dates are adding to desktops sites, especially one of them we have china that is rapidly building up its own nuclear arsenal and modernizing and so far,

refusing to be engaged in arms control talks because it hasn't yet reached what it was called parity with the united states and russia. here in the desert near the northwest and the city of human china has built more than 100 new side of these uh, storage and launching sides for icbm. and the last 10 years alone, china has doubled its nuclear inventory. it is estimated that the country now has around $500.00 warheads and is projected to grow further. it's a dramatic change for the chinese, of course, because all the previous decades, they have consistent that they were not in arms raised. they didn't need more than just a small number of weapons to make the point to other countries. we just don't do something stupid. they clearly clutter decided the dentist no longer. china has never explained why it is expanding its r as no, and how far it wants to go. and then let's say, reaching considered as far as know to vulnerable to an attack. so what does this

mean for the new nuclear arms, right? remember the idea of mutually assured destruction we mentioned before in the cold war, 2 sides mentioned each other and you've numbers to keep the arrival in check. striking a balance will be much harder with sweet play, us in the us and edition on nobody badging. how to confirm to me appear to your adversary in case russia and china and joint forces the and binding of the new nuclear k to bowl the 21 is just the 1st glimpse of the u. s. new modernization program. the total price tech to update us, nuclear weapons could reach $1.00 trillion dollars over the next 30 years. so new news, more news, and more dangerous. well, the system of the turns was beginning to falter. getting it back under control will be even harder. this time we only have experience in the past of doing arms control

and between the soviet union and the united states. we don't really have any experience doing multi actin pianist control agreements. busy so what does that mean for the future? the sale use of nuclear weapons. their value in the minds of military and political leaders is increasing that sense and message also to non nuclear states. we now have new countries in asia, in the maybe east and even in europe. thinking about whether they might need a nuclear weapons capability on their own. the new nuclear arms race is picking up speed and without new rules and place. it will be hard to stop the, i don't know why my name is no mark is my is i'm

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