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Description: The US will soon review its nuclear weapons programme. Should it spend $1.2 Trillion extending and updating it? Voiced by Stephen Fry Thanks to ICAN for helping achieve the nuclear weapons treaty. Please support them at icanw.org, and visit them at youtube.com/user/ICANinAction Help us make more videos like this (and enjoy exclusive content): patreon.com/pindex Receive our videos via email: pinfact.org/join Need a video? pindexvideoproduction.com Sources and resources: Neil Halloran's excellent infographic videos on nuclear weapons: youtu.be/bIAF7kBbGKk youtu.be/Z3RzNEzJyzo Our previous video on existential threats, including nuclear weapons: youtu.be/PvIBzzo_3AY The 3am call and 1979 NORAD alert. The History Guy: youtube.com/watch?v=YCQITNbw7tc&t=506s "The world’s largest nuclear weapon, the Tsar Bomba, would…" nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap "Russia has released long-secret footage of the bomb’s detonation..." youtube.com/watch?v=YtCTzbh4mNQ "Crops would be devastated, and it’s estimated that one to two billion people..." youtu.be/M7hOpT0lPGI?t=490 "Princeton University showed how the use of a single tactical nuclear missile could..." youtube.com/watch?v=2jy3JU-ORpo&feature=emb_logo "Engineers have overcome challenges including temperatures of over 2000 degrees..." Hypersonic Missile Nonproliferation, The RAND Corporation: youtu.be/FyUTNRIuAqc?t=94 "If Russia launches traditional nuclear missiles at the US..." nti.org/analysis/articles/launch-under-attack-feasible Nuclear protests: thenation.com/article/archive/nuclear-arms-inf-treaty-peace-movement The Doomsday clock, by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists: thebulletin.org