It's extraordinarily dangerous, extraordinarily expensive, and at the end, it's the end for the reasons that accidents do happen, misunderstandings do happen. The good news is that Over the previous almost 50 years now, there has been a reasonable desire on the part of administrations dating back to Ronald Reagan and then coming forward to now presidential administrations have recognized that the arms race is a no win race. And the only winner in this arms race are perhaps some profits by companies in Russia and the United States that are able to take a vast amount of taxpayer money in both countries and put it into weapons that are extraordinarily dangerous. (12:05–12:37)
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