{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 138: \u00a0\u201cThinking Again about the Unthinkable\u201d with Dr. Peter Vincent Pry","description":"This show comes at time that this episode\u2019s guest, Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, calls our \u201chinge of fate.\u201d Our topic is his riveting paper "Surprise Attack: ICBMs and the Real Nuclear Threat" where he lays bare the world\u2019s current and future nuclear warfare realities. It\u2019s an issue that many simply do not want to think about. As Peter puts it, \u201cwhen it comes to nuclear weapons, U.S. and Western strategic culture mostly thinks and acts in a state of denial and unreality. Nuclear weapons of mass destruction are antithetical to our ethos.\u201d But as Leon Trotsky warned, \u201cYou may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.\u201d By contrast, totalitarian states - China, Russia and North Korea - love, celebrate, and parade nuclear missiles as symbols of their omnipotence and their potential \u201cfinal solution\u201d to the vexing existence of free peoples, like the United States. The U.S. \u201cTriad\u201d comprises decades old bombers, ICBMs and missile submarines, requiring years to modernize, while Russia, China, and North Korea have mostly new systems and are developing new delivery vehicles that have no counterparts in the U.S. deterrent, including ASBMs, nuclear-powered cruise missiles, autonomous submarines like Russia\u2019s Poseidon, and hypersonic strategic warheads. They believe they could win a nuclear war. The \u201cunthinkable\u201d is becoming increasingly \u201cthinkable\u201d and someday soon may become irresistible to them. Yet space-based strategic defenses can turn the technological tide, if the U.S. awakens and acts\u2014 before it is too late. Dr. Peter Vincent Pry has vast experience in national security, where he\u2019s served as Executive Director of the EMP Task Force on National and Homeland Security, Director of the United States Nuclear Strategy Forum, Chief advisor to the Vice Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and the Vice Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, and to the Chairman of the Terrorism Panel. Dr. Pry was an Intelligence Officer with the Central Intelligence Agency responsible for analyzing Soviet and Russian nuclear strategy. Give this a 50 minute listen to learn what\u2019s at stake for America.   ","author_name":"The Bill Walton Show","author_url":"https:\/\/www.thebillwaltonshow.com","html":"