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Noam Chomsky on Ukraine and nuclear armageddon

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The Cold War and the Nuclear War?

You lived through the whole of the cold war, and there was no nuclear war. Though it did come close at least once, arguably two or three times. But howd you compare now the threat of a nuclear conflict with the cold war period? Well, really doesn't matter what my subjective judgment is. They are people much better placed than i am who really studied the coldthe nuclear system carefully. Many they think it's worse now, more dangerous. Now, i concur if we continue,. iin the in te unfortunately, in britain, the united states, russia, we don't now have the accommodationist forces that held back the worst tendencies. You do hear

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