Tom Nichols
speaker
2,378 appearances
19 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 19 May
Tom Nichols’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because it's going to take if he actually wants to do this, it's going to literally take years to get stuff in place to actually make this happen.
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So it's not like he can just start doing this tomorrow.
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I suspect what happened is he saw that the Russians were crowing about having a new nuclear powered cruise missile and this big nuclear torpedo that they've been talking about.
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And he said, well, they said something.
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So I have to say something.
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I'm actually going to give Donald Trump one tiny molecule of the benefit of the doubt.
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I think like most baby boomers, he's actually quite afraid of nuclear war, which is why he reacted to this in a very fearful way.
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If you are a confident person,
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competent u.s president and the russians beat their chest and say you know we have this you know we have new magic missile that can fly you know you as the president united states you say how nice for you and and you let it go and you don't respond to that he's reacting in a very fearful insecure um kind of way saying well you you did that well i'm gonna do something too he like the old joke goes don he has the right to remain silent just not the ability
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No, that's okay.
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I have them all the time.
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Leave them.
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I just didn't want her to step on anything and turn off the camera.
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Yeah.
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Where it leaves us is, first of all, if Donald Trump wants a Nobel Peace Prize, I can guarantee you that being the first major country in the 21st century to restart nuclear testing, probably not going to do it.
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I suspect he's given up on that plan if he's talking about resuming their testing.
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What it does is it makes America look hypocritical.
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Trump has, to his credit, said nuclear weapons are bad, you know, don't want to have them.
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But if you're going to do this kind of thing, it makes it look like hypocrisy.
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you don't think they're so bad or that you want an arms race.
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