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24. Amaryllis Fox: “What Does This New Version of Mutually Assured Destruction Look Like?”

People I (Mostly) Admire

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The Threat of Nuclear Weapons

I want to ask her whether life at the spy was as brutal as it seems it would be, but before that I want to get her opinion on whether or not I should be afraid of tears. A second thing that I found really surprising about your book was the suggestion that a lot of terror groups have close to within the reach or within the reach access to some kind of nuclear capabilities. With every passing year, these weapons do begin to fail. They do break down. There are a lot of components that are missing and because they're so old are very difficult to come by. The technology requires people who are familiar with now 30-year-old technology in order to operate it.

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