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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(07:37) - Nuclear war
(12:21) - Launch procedure
(18:00) - Deterrence
(21:34) - Tactical nukes
(30:59) - Nuclear submarines
(33:59) - Nuclear missiles
(41:10) - Nuclear football
(50:17) - Missile interceptor system
(54:34) - North Korea
(1:01:10) - Nuclear war scenarios
(1:10:02) - Warmongers
(1:14:31) - President's cognitive ability
(1:20:43) - Refusing orders
(1:28:41) - Russia and Putin
(1:33:48) - Cyberattack
(1:35:09) - Ground zero of nuclear war
(1:39:48) - Surviving nuclear war
(1:44:06) - Nuclear winter
(1:54:29) - Alien civilizations
(2:00:04) - Extrasensory perception
(2:13:50) - Area 51
(2:17:48) - UFOs and aliens
(2:28:15) - Roswell incident
(2:34:55) - CIA assassinations
(2:53:47) - Navalny
(2:56:12) - KGB
(3:02:48) - Hitler and the atomic bomb
(3:06:52) - War and human nature
(3:10:17) - Hope