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Elon Musk: “Russia was actually obligated to scrap a bunch of their…”

Featuring: Elon Musk, Senior Advisor to the President, Head of Department of Government Efficiency | National

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ELON MUSK JOINS VERDICT - PART 2 Verdict Ep. 215

Published | Video Starts at 17:45

So it gets slightly less insane when you understand that the Russians had to demolish a bunch of their ICBMs because of SALT talks. Like because of basically an agreement between United States and Russia to reduce the total number of ICBMs. Russia was actually obligated to scrap a bunch of their ICBMs [due to SALT talks]. So if you took the very biggest ICBMs, you could convert those into a rocket at an additional stage and send something to Mars. (17:45–17:50)

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Asserts that Russia was required to dismantle some ICBMs due to arms reduction agreements.

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