4 Times We’ve Gotten Close to Nuclear War

Brut America

We're closer to nuclear war now than we've been since World War II, according to the U.N. arms research chief. But this isn't the first time we've come close to mass destruction.

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00:00First, you duck, and then you cover, and very tightly, you cover the back of your neck and

00:15your face.

00:35Mere words cannot give voice to such suffering, but we have a shared responsibility to look

00:54directly into the eye of history and ask what we must do differently to curb such suffering

01:03again.

01:11It is my hope that he will succeed in convincing the Soviet representatives that the test ban

01:18treaty which we have proposed and stand ready to use as a basis for serious negotiations

01:24is a necessary and rational means of reducing the likelihood of nuclear war.

01:54North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction while starving

02:10its citizens.

02:40It is my hope that he will succeed in convincing the Soviet representatives that the test ban

03:00treaty which we have proposed and stand ready to use as a basis for serious negotiations.

03:20It does no good to sign an agreement if a party is not going to comply with it.

03:25And a piece of paper, if it's not being complied with, doesn't reduce the risk.

03:31It doesn't take down that threat to the people around the world.

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