00:00 The Cold War was the first war in history that held the possibility of ending in apocalypse.
00:11 The United States is the only country to have ever used an atomic weapon in warfare.
00:21 These weapons changed the fate of the 20th century.
00:25 They were so big and so destructive, they couldn't be used.
00:29 It would have been a suicide pact.
00:31 So instead, the Cold War was conducted through economic means, psychological means.
00:38 They envisioned the entire world Sovietized, communist style.
00:43 And through proxy battlefields across the world.
00:47 It created a need for secret activity that never went away.
00:53 The plan was to hit every city in Russia and China.
00:58 It struck me as the most evil plan.
01:02 This is institutional insanity.
01:06 The world in many ways faces a much more fraught nuclear landscape today than it has since
01:13 the 1980s.
01:14 Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
01:20 There was a lot of questions associated with the collapse of the Soviet Union.
01:25 What would it mean for a nuclear power to come undone?
01:28 Several hundred kilograms of nuclear materials have never been accounted for.
01:33 My automobile mechanic asked me if I'd like to buy some uranium.
01:38 Enough for two dozen nuclear weapons.
01:42 Putin said that collapse of the Soviet Union was the worst geopolitical tragedy of the
01:48 20th century.
01:50 The Cold War did end, but we are living through a new Cold War.
01:56 Once humans stop seeing other humans as human, the most horrific acts are possible.
02:10 We're in a much worse place than we were in the Cold War.
02:16 Cold War was cold.
02:17 This is an unstable hot war, which could lead to catastrophic outcomes.
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