Annie Jacobsen
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2,389 appearances
6 recordings
5 series
first heard Mar 2024
last heard 4 Mar
Annie Jacobsen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And the result of the Reykjavik summit was that the world has gone from 70,000 nuclear warheads.
That was the all-time high.
70,000.
Why do you need 70,000 nuclear warheads?
That's what there were in 1986.
And now here we are because of the reductions, because of the treaties, thanks to those two.
12,500 approximately nuclear warheads.
That is the movement in the right direction.
And it came from a dramatic story being told.
And it came from the president taking action because people would not stand for this anymore.
There were massive protests.
That is for the disarmament experts.
I like to stay in my lane as a storyteller, as an investigative journalist.
I like to give you the dramatic, fast read and then pass the baton
to those who have been working on that issue for decades because, boy, are they qualified.
I just had the great fortune of being invited to Brussels where I was part of a nuclear expo, and there were members of the European Parliament in the audience.
And there were all these disarmament people there, and I learned a lot about all of these groups.
And they have the answer, and they are the ones that should be asked that question, and they are doing a lot to get us there.
Okay, so I'm going to push back against that, which is by no means right.
I'm not right, but we're just having a sort of theoretical conversation here.
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