China’s Machiavellian Mindset
This Means War
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The Future of Nuclear Weapons
In the West, we've elevated nuclear weapons for a long time to be the sort of strategic thing that's sort of a world ending scenario. We need to talk about this more, right? Because actually we're putting our mindset on them rather than thinking about the way they consider things in particular nuclear weapons and how they do their calculations over potential usage and the benefits. Of course, the North Koreans have atomic weapons, not semi-nuclear weapons, at least at the present time. The North East Asia is a very crowded area, though. You wouldn't need to be swinging very many nukes around to be creating a large crowds radioactive dust and affecting a lot of people very, very quickly
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