Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

And in the next year, Kennedy was determined to pull the world back from the brink of nuclear war.

And that's where the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty came from.

And I wrote a book about this episode called To Move the World, JFK's Quest for Peace.

It's a good short book, quick read, but it's about a famous speech that Kennedy gave on June 10, 1963, where he told the American people, we need to make peace with the other side.

And he then launched What some people called the Kennedy experiment, he unilaterally announced the United States would stop nuclear testing as long as others didn't carry out tests until there was a treaty banning such tests.

And within a couple months, they had finished the limited test ban treaty, which stopped the poisoning of the air from the fallout from atmospheric emissions.

nuclear testing and was the first sort of really big U.S.-Soviet treaty limiting nuclear weapons.

Khrushchev was so impressed by Kennedy's speech, which he got the text of ahead of time, they turned off the jammers in the Soviet Union so that the Soviet people could hear it over Voice of America.

The nuclear one is interesting, although you might want to check with a physicist on the EMP in space effects, because the EMP effect on the ground has been measured and documented quite well, in particular with the Starfish Prime.

uh test uh in in the early 1960s where bits of hawaii's power grid were knocked out um from the high altitudes test um the the the soviets also um tested the same and uh you know one of the earliest treaties to cover space was the limited test ban treaty uh of 1963 where the Soviets and the Americans agreed that, yeah, we should probably not test nuclear bombs anymore in the atmosphere or in space or, you know, in the sea or, you know, on the surface of the ground.

It's just not good.

And, yeah, in space, I think there'll be a range for an EMP effect.

It led directly to the establishment of the Moscow-Washington hotline for direct communication.

And it paved the way for the Limited Test Ban Treaty, the first major arms control agreement.

So after Cuba, the superpowers fundamentally understand that direct kinetic conflict in Europe or the Americas is tantamount to suicide.

The nuclear rules dictate that they cannot shoot directly at each other.

In the middle of the night, Donald Trump, the sick and demented President of the United States, posted this.

For the record, we haven't had nuclear tests since the 1960s, since the Test Ban Treaty was signed by the aforementioned President Kennedy.

But this is what a thermonuclear explosion looks like, a nuclear detonation.

Yes, and Donald Trump, the man who posted this deranged AI slop, controls the largest and most potent nuclear arsenal on Earth.

First off, President Kennedy is assassinated.

We also have the signing of the Limited Test Ban Treaty, so we're no longer gonna do atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons.

After Kennedy's assassination, Johnson is, he, he's not really interested in civil defense.

Civil defense just compared to everything else begins to kind of, it just loses its, its both public support and its senior federal support.

And then the treaties closed the door.

The 1958 test moratorium and then the Limited Test Ban Treaty in 1963, which banned atmospheric testing.

Once you can't test in the atmosphere, you can't test a 10 gigaton weapon.

There's nowhere to do it.