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The Political Orphanage

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The Importance of Surviving a Nuclear War

Herman Khan was the leading Cold War defense analyst. He talked about having a survivable nuclear war in the early 1960s. His attitude was, okay, let's see what we've got. And so he estimated about a third of the world's population would be wiped out.

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