Angus Fletcher
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 8 Jul
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A great example of this would be during the 1960s.
So basically what's happening during the 1960s is you're getting the onset of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
And one of the ways in which that's manifesting itself is a race for missile technology.
So both the Soviets and the Americans are trying to build
bigger missiles and build more of them.
And so we get into this arms race in the 1960s in which the Soviets are turning all their industrial capacity to just making essentially more and more and more nukes.
And the United States is feeling drawn into that.
We've got to make more missiles to keep up with the Soviets.
But at a certain point, someone comes along and goes, this is nuts, right?
They're making more missiles.
We're making more missiles.
We're spending all of our industrial capacity on missiles.
Let's think more imaginatively here.
What would show the Soviets that we've beaten them that doesn't involve building more missiles?
Like, what's the way to show to them you can't defeat the United States?
That isn't just having a stockpile of 100,000 nukes.
So they sat around and thought about this for a while.
And they said, you know what it would be?
it would be showing that our missiles are so powerful
that we can put a missile anywhere that we want.
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