
Oppenheimer: The Real Plan for U.S. Nuclear Domination, Then and Now
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
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The Fall of the Bomb
The dropping of the bomb was not necessary. The US had a monopoly on nuclear weapons, but you can see in the Oppenheimer movie, well, once we use this bomb, other people are going to get it. There's a sense right now of inadequacy in the United States because Russia has fielded new kinds of nuclear weapon delivery systems. Both countries would be utterly destroyed with a fraction of our respective arsenals. China is rapidly building out its arsenal so that it can't be wiped out with a first strike.
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