it is an ironic but accurate fact that the two strongest palos of the two are the most danger of devastation all we have built all we have worked for what they destroyed in the first twenty four hours mad mutually assured destruction enemy the russians were trying to catch up a nuclear war with the soviet union and that we should fight it sooner rather than later our policy toward them has been wall street way of watching whole non intrusive friendship giving help when hope is there for but otherwise keeping hands all their internal affairs it was the united states that provoked the soviet union the strategic air command was flying strategic bombers over the north pole deep end of the soviet union whe had no defenses just to see how far they could get this is why the soviets built up a missile defenses and so forth they didn't have the money for this but we pushed them into an arms race and that was our mistake of the public was completely ignorant of the fact that the detonating the largest nuclear bomb behind the scenes the character jack the ripper is widely believed to be a representation of curtis le may well the stranger of character played by peter sellers is believed to be an amalgam of leading minds from the rand corporation a think tank then largely devoted to war gaming a nuclear po would decrease in value for current nuclear weapons were like a precious commodity in danger depreciation on the global marketplace though con did not advocate a first strike he believed that a nuclear letter to james madison thomas jefferson remarked that spain could rule the island until our people are sufficiently advanced to take those territories from the spanish like that in eight hundred seventy eight secretary  james blaine remarked there are only three places that are of value enough to be taking one is hawaii the other are cuba and put a recount they took all three but one successfully re attacks may be made in many ways with bombs or with biological weapons this might be one form of biological warfare biological warfare what are these big me to do about it is not my headache you are wrong you had better find out the facts about my logical warfare or b w it can be aimed at you when you are home or  at your food drop your livestock not very far from edgewood in historic frederick maryland are the biological warfare laboratories here men and women of science i doing basically the same type of work as in other government university and industrial laboratories a combination of medical and public health research i believe that's what you're looking for in the case of cuba these attacks have reportedly ranged from the introduction of the threats pammy insect play to african swine virus according to news a u s intelligence or zygmunt that he was given the swine virus in  painted in bright colors designed to learn scuba diving castro to an underwater gr it took some time before cuba elected to create a deterrent in the form of potential nuclear war initially castro followed the procedures required by international love calling on the un for help in july one thousand nine hundred sixty he provided the security council with records of more than twenty bombings including the names of pilot plane registration numbers and others does it make evident no help is going to county instead the u s responded with a disastrous date pigs invasion laying the groundwork for one of the most dangerous moments in human history to refuse to accept the presence of  the standoff came to a head in a little known incident when commanders of a soviet submarine position near cuba believed they were under attack a group of united states navy destroyers began dropping practiced depth charges on a submarine this it a special report from c b s you right that's begetting this day look as though might be one of armed conflict between soviet vessels and american warships on the sea lines leading to cuba but there is been no  confrontation as far as we know and some hope has been generated by suggestions of negotiation according to rejected the order and they had to have you all three agreeing that in fire the third fired nuclear tipped missiles the u s reaction we know from the internal plans was you know they do something like the collapse was caused by numerous factors in the last analyst affan point to a corrupt bureaucracy the desire for more consumer goods lack of civil liberties and  has radically mischaracterized the collapse of the soviet union in a twenty twelve article he suggested at the end of the cold should not be equated with the collapse of the russian economy while the firm was enacted with the goal of preventing nuclear war and decentralizing power the latter actually occurred two years later when russian president boris yeltsin and the leaders in the ukraine and belorussia staged defiant coup de tat twenty million russians were thrown into poverty internationally the result winners complex among the american political elite outsourced the contractors all running routes created a new category well terry operations other war frankly we simply denied it and our d which said we don't go into any situation unless we have a clear exit strategy meaning the su is the gun the stop shooting we're out of there as quickly as possible draw a lot in here everything below it basically cats and dogs you're going to do this every decade no matter what i like our every decade intervention  after reagan took office military spending literally skyrocketed insiders from both the east and west are adamant that not only did reagan's actions fail to hasten the soviet union's collapse the leading expert on the united states in soviet russia former cia agent robert scheer stated that the us military buildup during the reagan years actually impulses of an evil empire to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil the really dangerous thing was that the flight time of this miss isles was gipper is now widely perceived as the man who ended the cold war in fact he nearly ended the world as we the highest possible ability to launch a retaliatory strike however were he to pass on the information to the top command they were if i only had a few minutes to decide whether to launch a counterattack noting that under ronald reagan us wrestle relations could not possibly have been worse patra broke military protocol  assad now lives a quiet life in this block of flats northeast of moscow although he says what happened that night a nice ninety three is just a footnote that may turn out to be the most important footnote of cold war history by soviet weren't the only ones having computer glitches a few years earlier in november nine hundred seventy nine norad onscreen indications of a full scale soviet attack leading to exercise the scenario and on out a nuclear attack on the soviet union comes in half jointly safeguarding the environment banning weapons in outer space ending exploitation of the third world and can verbal agreement this will study is a verbal agreement which gorbachev naive li took seriously and not realizing who was dealing with it was a verbal agreement that if gorbachev permitted germany to being reunified and incorporated within nato which is quite a concession then the nato would guarantee that they wouldn't extend one inch to the east is the phrase that was used that wouldn't go to east germany and certainly not beyond but bush was careful not to put it in writing so that promise went out the window very quickly and in fact clinton quickly expanded it to the intervention force in the balkans afghanistan and for beyond the current nato mission officially is to protect the oil resources energy resources pipelines and sea l there is to protect the global energy system protect means make sure we run it march nine hundred ninety nine the u s and its nato allies bomb yugoslavia our armed forces joined our nato allies and air strikes against serbia and forces responsible for the brutality in kosovo march two thousand and eleven america's next president and a new coalition of the willing attack libya the u n security council passed a strong resolution that demands an end goal now and back then getting rid of a leader no longer favored by the west taking sides with a questionable opposition in what started as a civil war what we're seeing is a full fledged war including attempting that evidently  to kill the head of state of that of the targeted country and other leaders of the government that again is you know a page from the yugoslav book of twelve years ago what is the world learned evidently not much the official reason for western involvement a so called is the engine of that machine both then and now the no fly zone fueled in libya by the additional all necessary measures where the line between the enemy in a foreign land and its civilians often gets blurred they did in yugoslavia with thousands of people killed and close to one million displaced after the war when they did a count they found that us nato bombs had destroyed fourteen tanks and serbia fourteen tanks but they had also bombed one hundred and thirty seven schools a similar scenario is now predicted in libya and now we're seeing the involvement of nato first in libya and perhaps elsewhere in africa you see at the same time  parallel to a rising nato role you see the role of africa the u s africa command which at least at the beginning of the nato engagement was in command of u s forces in nato and despite efforts to claim that africa is really about health care and aids education and women's rights to be carried out by the u s military we have a very serious reality that africa now provides more oil to the united states than the entire middle east so the notion that this is somehow a humanitarian goal which just coincidentally is going to be carried out by the u s military in the name of africa command simply boggles the imagination this is the expansion of u military control of africa and we're seeing if we look at nato as a whole and who are the powerful military forces within nato these are the former colonial powers in africa and i think that this is something that the african union is going to be very much on guard against and i think people across africa are going to be seeing it that way the air force and the army all send troops to say somalia for a hundred days each and not all that four times one hundred equals four hundred you want to combine crisis response days from the services billable hours i think is the best measure this is your expeditionary theater for the twenty first century it's not going away you can vote bush cheney out of office will still be there so president after president ministration after ministration republican and democrat we're going to have to deal with  and one of the first things we discover in the total war on terrorism we've got a lot of books work in this for all southern command european central command pacific command basically precinct captains is logically described as largely an undercover war and we're seeing a redefinition of strategic command it's a global strike force the beginnings of a matrix organization war fighting is going to migrate in the direction of these two commands previously considered just supporting berlin wall and it was very interesting it said nothing's going to change except pretexts he said we've got to keep a massive military force just like before but now it's not to protect ourselves from the russians it's because of the technological sophistication of the third world that's why we need a military force the size of the rest of the world combined and people didn't laugh when they reported he said we have to keep the defense industrial base what's that of the defense industrial base is high tech industry a lot of a developed under developed within the state system and under a pentagon cover so it's pretext of defense it's called the defense industrial base so that's computers or the internet you know the i t v revolution affect the whole tronic space type tech economy so we want to maintain that people didn't talk about free markets and economics worse if they like what we're in the real world it's a state based the dynamic center of research and development in the states the most interesting part was about the middle east so we have to maintain intervention forces russian resources with some industries being sold for as low as two percent of their actual value the russian parliament disapproved of the measures by a rate of ten to nine after a coup encounter and