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Followed by a brief q a should there be time for us to do that. I am so pleased tonight to introduce two of our friends and colleagues, the first being dr. Saje mathieu. Dr. Mathieu is an associate professor of history at the university of minnesota. She is just finishing a faculty fellowship at Harvard Universitys center for studies in American History. She earned a joint phd in history and africanamerican studies and specializes in 20th century american and africanAmerican History with an emph...

Claimed more than 200000 lives in the United States flags were planted in front of the Washington Monument to mark of the grim milestone the toll accounts for more than a one in 5 coded 1000 deaths globally and is putting a president Donald Trumps handling of the pandemic in the spotlight as he campaigns for his 2nd term in office. Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called on people to observe new coronavirus restrictions or risk a 2nd lockdown johnson made the appeal in a televised addre...

Are still there and we never change them theyre still dangerous and in some ways theyre more dangerous than ever because people are focused on other issues and they simply dont see the dangers that we face and sent in to parry why isnt it discussed. Thats that course is too deep for me to answer psychological question to fundamentally. When the cold war ended the danger and the worried that people had the fear that people had about a Nuclear Catastrophe just ended with it and they just dont want...

We face today is blundering into nuclear war by mistake thats the threat we should focus on thats the right threat and by focusing on the wrong threat yesterdays threat of a russian intentional attack rationally making the threat of a blunder even worse. Hypothetically mr secretary give me an example of what would be a blundering threat i think the most obvious example is a false alarm that we have had now during the cold war 3 different false alarms. More of them i personally experienced by get...

True why well i think what happened is that a lot of policies that we had for the cold war for the arms race we had with the soviet union those policies never changed when the cold war ended and so as bill said people have moved on cerns have moved on to other issues but the old policies are still there and we never change them theyre still dangerous and in some ways theyre more dangerous than ever because people are focused on other issues and they simply dont see the dangers that we face and s...

Is about 2 away from record territory. Blake burman at the white house. Edward lawrence in washington. We start with blake, with the latest from the president. Reporter the white house is acknowledging that it might take some time to get federal Unemployment Benefits out the door going forward. The executive order from the president 300 from the federal post, the states matching 100 if they are able to. Some state governors mentioned they cant. In any event the white house is working on this iss...

Is urging foreign nations to impose sanctions on the Hong Kong Government and asking for donations and it sayays they we still involved after the National Security law took effect at the end of june. The paper says one of the activists lives in britain, another probeijing paper reports that the Hong Kong Media mogul jimmy lai has been giving people money. And he owns the apple newspaper which sometimes criticizes the government in beijing. Agnes chow says they never told her how they suspected s...

A Nuclear Catastrophe is actually greater now was during the cold war and were entered into a new arms race is dangerousness cost is the one in the cold war tom if thats true why well i think what happened is that a lot of policies that we had for the cold war for the arms race we had with the soviet union those policies never changed it when the cold war ended and so as bill said people have moved on their cerns have moved on to other issues but the old policies are still there and we never cha...

Here. It is already really warm for elsewhere something more than yesterday. Reporter several dozen its some higher clouds are moving immediately they are favoring areas towards these to declare valley, huge lightning strikes this morning. The tropical moisture is of those inside watch releases to happen swiftly. I want to show the state i running into very dry air. Have a place for him to come home to. He will have transportation, Financial Support and anything its losing thunderstorm character...

From the center for strategic and International Studies this is just under 45 minutes. Welcome to csis online event. Today were going to be talking about russian influence in the United Kingdom. This is part of a broader report that csis just produced that looks how to counter russian and chinese influence. So last thursday we held a conversation with former australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull that looked at chinese influence in australia. Part of the report examined japan and australia a...