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Nuclear weapon

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Oct 30, 2026

Alexander MercourisHOST
22:11
So I'm afraid I completely agree with you about nuclear war.
Alexander MercourisHOST
22:15
I think that the chances of nuclear war with the Russians... are small i don't think the russians have any plans to use nuclear weapons why would they because they are advancing and the war is going their way but if i was to say that there's no possibility of nuclear war in europe i would be saying more than i believe frankly if you're talking about iran i'm afraid that the risks there are significantly greater Though again, I hope that sense will prevail.
Alexander MercourisHOST
22:53
As for your point about a ceasefire, Putin has repeatedly and consistently rejected a ceasefire along the conflict line.
Alexander MercourisHOST
23:05
He actually agreed to one.

30 MINS LATER

Alex ChristoforouHOST
52:57
Hafiz Hav says, how will the world react if Iran is nuked?
Alexander MercourisHOST
53:02
Again, I don't want to speculate too deeply about this, but this is two things I will say.
Alexander MercourisHOST
53:10
Firstly, if nuclear weapons are used, then the day after we will be in a different world from the one we were in the day before.
Alexander MercourisHOST
53:23
I mean, it will transform the whole nature of the world.
Val LaheyGUEST
10:04
They don't want to feel like they're responsible for it.
Val LaheyGUEST
10:06
They hear about the kind of concerns that people had in the past about nuclear weapons and nuclear war, and somehow it's not moving them to action.
Val LaheyGUEST
10:16
So you can see how people have gone into agreement to it, that they're like going, okay, they don't want to know.
Val LaheyGUEST
10:22
There's a big difference between Big, big, big difference between a self-fulfilling prophecy that's negative and And a person willfully not wanting to know.
Scott ManleyHOST
9:57
And so that is the urchin.
Scott ManleyHOST
9:58
And these things are critically important, pun intended, to the early nuclear weapons.
Scott ManleyHOST
10:05
So Polonium-210 has a half-life of about 134 days.
Scott ManleyHOST
10:10
So when they are creating these weapons, when they were assembling these weapons, they had to do it at the last minute.
Scott ManleyHOST
10:55
So yes, obviously we have this early nuclear, you have the Trinity Test, and then we have Nagasaki, and we have things like the Crossroad Test, which are in 1946, like a year later.
Scott ManleyHOST
11:09
And the US, all this time, they are using the reactors at Hanford to make more and more plutonium to build up their stockpile of weapons.
Scott ManleyHOST
11:15
And they're telling the world, hey, we've got these nuclear weapons.
Scott ManleyHOST
11:18
In fact, we're building more nuclear weapons.
Isaac ArthurHOST
3:59
Because apocalypse is not the same thing as extinction, and collapse is not the same thing as the end of the story.
Isaac ArthurHOST
4:07
What Nuclear Weapons Actually Do A nuclear weapon is not one danger, it is a bundle of dangers.
Isaac ArthurHOST
4:15
Blast, heat, prompt radiation, possible EMP, fallout, fire, panic, and systems collapse.
Isaac ArthurHOST
4:22
Modern nuclear planning also tends to involve bundles in another sense.
Isaac ArthurHOST
6:01
Whether you are behind concrete, underground, in a subway tunnel, in the parking garage, or simply on the other side of a hill matters.
Isaac ArthurHOST
6:09
A megaton weapon is horrifying at city scale, is not planetary, and even within a city it does not kill by drawing a perfect circle on a map.
Isaac ArthurHOST
6:18
During the Cold War, people often said we had enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world many times over.
Isaac ArthurHOST
6:23
That is emotionally understandable, but physically sloppy.
Isaac ArthurNARRATOR
3:58
Because apocalypse is not the same thing as extinction, and collapse is not the same thing as the end of the story.
Isaac ArthurNARRATOR
4:06
What Nuclear Weapons Actually Do A nuclear weapon is not one danger, it is a bundle of dangers.
Isaac ArthurNARRATOR
4:14
Blast, heat, prompt radiation, possible EMP, fallout, fire, panic, and systems collapse.
Isaac ArthurNARRATOR
4:21
Modern nuclear planning also tends to involve bundles in another sense.
Isaac ArthurNARRATOR
6:00
Whether you are behind concrete, underground, in a subway tunnel, in the parking garage, or simply on the other side of a hill matters.
Isaac ArthurNARRATOR
6:08
A megaton weapon is horrifying at city scale, is not planetary, and even within a city it does not kill by drawing a perfect circle on a map.
Isaac ArthurNARRATOR
6:17
During the Cold War, people often said we had enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world many times over.
Isaac ArthurNARRATOR
6:22
That is emotionally understandable, but physically sloppy.
Alex JonesHOST
8:05
It is obviously multi-use.
Alex JonesHOST
8:06
It's also if Russia goes ahead and takes over all of Ukraine, if NATO actually decides to go to full war with them, if NATO attacks Kaliningrad, which they've been talking about doing, Russia has said they'll use nuclear weapons.
Alex JonesHOST
8:22
That's also a big part of this.
Alex JonesHOST
8:23
And you also have the doomsday planes being activated yesterday and doing nuclear drills in the last week that they're just now telling us about.

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Scott RitterSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
22:12
um people need to understand that russia will respond to that by changing their targeting etc and also changing their you know their launch um kill chain that we talked about earlier you know from a decision to launch how that kill chain operates because now the french and the british are seeing this singularity um one glitch by the french you have to assume the british are going to be involved so you strike all targets at once the french are extending their nuclear umbrella into Poland and into Finland.
Scott RitterSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
22:43
They're talking about Rafael fighters being deployed to Finland with nuclear bombs on board.
Scott RitterSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
22:48
The Germans are talking about creating their own nuclear weapons now, and they all want America to put additional nuclear weapons.
Scott RitterSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
22:53
And so Europe's gone mad.
Sharon WeinbergerGUEST
18:12
And there was one called Hafnium-178.
Sharon WeinbergerGUEST
18:16
And a part of the Pentagon called DARPA was funding a program to essentially see, could you make a nuclear hand grenade, a sort of next generation weapon? That would be a little bit less powerful than nuclear weapons, but more powerful than conventional explosives.
Sharon WeinbergerGUEST
18:32
Instead of the diagram that was briefed on it was it was a nuclear hand grenade, which was a little crazy.
Sharon WeinbergerGUEST
18:38
And I started thinking, like, well, what if I tracked? I mean, the Pentagon is full of crazy programs.

31 MINS LATER

Sharon WeinbergerGUEST
49:43
But it's right to be skeptical.
Sharon WeinbergerGUEST
49:47
of these promises and of people who don't have a lot of experience in defense.
Terrence McNallyHOST
49:53
Also, sort of what they might be willing to do, you quote Palmer Luckey of Anduril when asked whether he would develop nuclear weapons.
Sharon WeinbergerGUEST
50:03
Yeah.
Linda Moulton HoweHOST
2:21
It is about 62 miles northwest of Ellsworth Air Force Base.
Linda Moulton HoweHOST
2:26
The actual nuclear missiles connected to that launch control facility are 60 feet underground in the U.S. Air Force November 5 Minuteman missile site, only seven miles southwest of the November 1 LCF.
Linda Moulton HoweHOST
2:45
Between November 1 and November 5 is Newell Lake, represented by the blue circle only 11 miles from the small town of Newell.
Linda Moulton HoweHOST
2:57
It was 1 a.m. local time when Mario Woods and his November 1 launch control facility leader, Michael Johnson, received a Situation 4 alert.

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Linda Moulton HoweHOST
38:00
And I will welcome your feedback on this part one and part two with Mario Woods.
Linda Moulton HoweHOST
38:07
I would like to hear from everybody about...
Linda Moulton HoweHOST
38:12
Where does this strike you, I guess, in the sense of you know yourselves, you know what your inner core is, you know when you have an effect, an impact in yourself that maybe is at a soul level as well as a mind and mental level? And I would like to know what all your reaction is to this part one and part two coming from somebody who worked with nuclear missiles, knows what he's talking about, and then ends up having been abducted and come back to talk about what happened.
Linda Moulton HoweHOST
38:51
I would love to know if you feel like you are beginning to hear this kind of information now in 2021, almost to 2022, as we would listen to a news report, let's say a long time ago, but people would never have been, probably had any context for any of this, let's say if they were listening to this story in the 1950s.
S2A1HOST
0:11
Joint staff planner fired due to alleged misconduct.
S2A1HOST
0:14
Fire reported at South Carolina Nuclear Weapons Production Facility.
S2A1HOST
0:17
Situation reportedly under control.
S2A1HOST
0:19
Targeting continues in the Strait of Hormuz and in Saudi Arabia.
Scott KellyHOST
33:29
So I guess where is the line between understanding why that religious community and Iran with their state structure plus a nuclear weapon is more of a threat to global stability than the United States? Provocative comparison,
Ryan McBethGUEST
33:42
but...
Ryan McBethGUEST
33:43
So I guess one thing is history, right? We have had a history of not using nuclear weapons for a very long time.
Ryan McBethGUEST
33:49
Iran has not had any nuclear weapons not to use, right? But if you look at their theology, it is built around we must create the end of the world so the Mahdi can return.
Ryan McBethGUEST
34:02
They genuinely believe that in the year 868, the Mahdi, the final Mahdi, the 12th Imam, disappeared.
Ryan McBethGUEST
34:11
And he is still alive, but he is in a state of occlusion and he will return.
Ryan McBethGUEST
37:06
It just didn't have the oomph.
Ryan McBethGUEST
37:08
to reach Diego Garcia.

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