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Great decisions is produced by the Foreign Policy association in association with thomson reuters, funding for great decisions is provided by Price Waterhouse coopers llp. dramatic music [radio host] a short time ago, an american airplane dropped one bomb on hiroshima. That bomb has more power than 20,000 tons of tnt. [narrator] the seeds of Nuclear Proliferation were sown when the us attacked hiroshima and nagasaki at the end of world war ii. It was mankinds first exposure to a weapon that would forever alter the calculus of war. The introduction of then called atomic weapons in 1945 had a ve...

And were going to have to exactly work out what room for maneuver we have within the terms of this agreement. We just have are to really hope that people like me are wrong and very wrong, because if were right, if were even half right, weve got got a we have not got a lot of levers to pull should iran change its behavior in a direction that doesnt suit our security interests. You had a question, followup question . Thank you very much. Im going back after this. My question is that in u. S. Administration generally believed that [inaudible] certainly in tremendous pressure. But if they were all...

And we remember the russians had this basketball sized entity, this button neck. Wonder putting something in space is surpassed by this. And we leave with an appreciation with an understanding of the difficulty of sustainable credibility and the fragility of stability. And it was not a happy place to be at that point. It was very big just before the election and completely disappeared after the election as well and it was a meth, in fact. So in the 1960s, and what you should be thinking about here or holding onto here is the importance of the revelers to the situation that we have in northeast...

We find ourselves in the 90s in a whole new world. The decline of Nuclear Weapons. We have an arms control treaty, start one at the very beginning of the decade. We have International Structure which is no longer why polar. It could be called unipolar. We have globalization is the recent pieces to it but it appears to be part of a fundamental new world order. I love that phrase. It has the imagery of military force that still there but not Nuclear Weapons. Economic measures of power were going to be so much more important. There was a prediction of the decline of the nationstate in the concept...

Do not even know about them until 2009. He was honored at an event and there is a wonderful article about him in the smithsonian magazine. If you search for george kovar, really interesting stuff. But he was in oak ridge as well. Right now the Atomic Heritage Foundation has something called manhattan voices of the Manhattan Project and they have been working on gathering oral histories for a long time and they are now starting to put them up on line. That is a tremendous project. They are just starting to put them up on line now but thats very interesting. Thanks for your work. Thank you very ...