Each week American History tv sits in on a lecture with one of the Nations College professors. You can watch the classes every saturday evening at 8 00 p. M. And midnight eastern. Next virginia commonwealth , University Instructor Christopher Saladino talked about the competition between the u. S and the soviet union to build advanced Nuclear Weaponry during the cold war. He describes the concept of mutually assured destruction which, he argued, kept the u. S. And the ussr from escalating to open war since both countries possessed enough Nuclear Weapons to obliterate the other. This class is about 50 minutes. Lets create up a little bit. We have talked about war, we have talked about this sort of to theater war, the Second World War, how military force is organized historically. , the war isaid, ok organized a certain way, but Technology Changes that. Then we introduce the cold war. We talked about the logic of sort of the start of the cold war. But the real mitigating factor for this
And the ussr from escalating to open war since both countries possessed enough Nuclear Weapons to obliterate the other. This class is about 50 minutes. Lets recap a little bit. We segued. We talked about national security. We have talked about war, we have talked about this sort of two theater war, the Second World War, how military force is reorganized historically. And we said, ok, the war is organized a certain way, but Technology Changes that. Then we introduce the cold war. We talked about the logic of sort of the start of the cold war. What we call the cause of the cold war. But the real mitigating factor for this is going to be Nuclear Weapons. Today were going to talk about the rise of Nuclear Weapons. We started talking about the rise of Nuclear Weapons on monday when we talked about the original Nuclear Arms Race, the race between nazi germany and the United States in the 1940s to develop a weapon and we talked about how germany was knocked out of that through circumstances d
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We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard. The eagle has landed. Now we can see you coming down. A moonshot for all of humanity. One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. That first walk on the moon was over 40 years ago. In this hour well explore five great moon shots of today. Sending astronauts to mars 3d printing a human heart, creating a star on earth, flying from new york to london in an hour and mapping the human brain. Welcome to a gps special, moon shots for the 21st century. It was early december 2014 at cape canaveral. Beautiful morning for a launch in florida. But it felt a little bit like the days of apolo. Go. Bp. Go. Status check. Go delta. At the top of a delta 4 heavy rocket sat orion, the spacecraft nasa has designed for sending human beings to mars. Three, two, one, and liftoff. At dawn the dawn of orion, the new era of American Space exploration. It went farther into face than any