Francis Foster

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More short term, I guess.

You should explain how a nuclear weapon works, then how a thermonuclear weapon works, and then also what have been some of the developments since the thermonuclear weapons were invented.

Like I mentioned, the tsunami bomb, etc.

Well, let's conceive it.

Novo Zemlya, yeah.

And not to say nothing of the fact that, as we understand it currently, I think if you had nuclear war between major players, the tit-for-tat would actually end all human life on Earth, wouldn't it?

Well, hold on a second.

I mean, if you look at Russia-Ukraine, and we should come back to that because of the point you made, but you know what I think about the invasion of Ukraine.

I think it's an abomination from Putin.

I agree.

And I know you do, but I also think, and we should explore this, actually, before we get into the nuclear dimension, because the one argument I've never heard anyone who thinks that the West provoked Russia has ever addressed is the argument that I always make on this, which is,

um ultimately every time russia is strong it seeks to cushion itself westwards create a bigger cushion between moscow and its western frontier and so if you don't expand nato after the collapse of the soviet union that's fine but what you will end up with is a russian dominated eastern europe in the way that you had before the collapse of the soviet union

now some people will see that as a price worth paying others not but ultimately my point is you're going to find yourself in a confrontation with russia at some point unless you have no red lines whatsoever unless you're and putin's on record as saying america is evil because what they did is they upset the post-world war ii order they went reneged on the agreement of the post-world war ii order well the post-world war ii order was russian tanks in berlin right

so and half of germany being effectively controlled by the ussr so unless you're prepared to tolerate that you are always going to get into a standoff with russia and therefore if you don't expand nato

into Latvia, Lithuania, they just become, they get taken over by Russia in some form.

And if we say, well, Russia's got nuclear weapons, we always just, we've got to be careful, well, when does that end?

At some point, there is a tension that has to be addressed, even in a nuclear world.