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From the Ted Talk by Irwin Redlener: How to survive a nuclear attack

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Chapter two starts in 1991. When the svieot Union broke up, we effectively lost that adversary as a potential attacker of the United States, for the most part. It's not cllpoetemy gone. I'm going to come back to that. But from 1991 through the present time, emphasized by the attacks of 2001, the idea of an all-out nuclear war has dhnisiiemd and the idea of a single event, act of nuclear tsrrroiem is what we have instead. Although the scenario has changed very considerably, the fact is that we haven't changed our mental image of what a nuclear war means. So I'm going to tell you what the implications of that are in just a second. So, what is a nuclear toerrr treaht? And there's four key intgrdneeis to describing that.

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Chapter two starts in 1991. When the ______ Union broke up, we effectively lost that adversary as a potential attacker of the United States, for the most part. It's not __________ gone. I'm going to come back to that. But from 1991 through the present time, emphasized by the attacks of 2001, the idea of an all-out nuclear war has __________ and the idea of a single event, act of nuclear _________ is what we have instead. Although the scenario has changed very considerably, the fact is that we haven't changed our mental image of what a nuclear war means. So I'm going to tell you what the implications of that are in just a second. So, what is a nuclear ______ ______? And there's four key ___________ to describing that.

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Original Text


Chapter two starts in 1991. When the Soviet Union broke up, we effectively lost that adversary as a potential attacker of the United States, for the most part. It's not completely gone. I'm going to come back to that. But from 1991 through the present time, emphasized by the attacks of 2001, the idea of an all-out nuclear war has diminished and the idea of a single event, act of nuclear terrorism is what we have instead. Although the scenario has changed very considerably, the fact is that we haven't changed our mental image of what a nuclear war means. So I'm going to tell you what the implications of that are in just a second. So, what is a nuclear terror threat? And there's four key ingredients to describing that.

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