The US will soon review its nuclear weapons programme. Should it spend $1.2 Trillion extending and updating it?

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Sources and resources:

Neil Halloran's excellent infographic videos on nuclear weapons:
   • Estimating Deaths in a Nuclear War  
   • Simulation of a Nuclear Blast in a Ma...  

Our previous video on existential threats, including nuclear weapons:
   • This $8 Trillion Mistake Could Kill 1...  

The 3am call and 1979 NORAD alert. The History Guy:
   • The 3 a.m. call and the 1979 NORAD Alert  

"The world’s largest nuclear weapon, the Tsar Bomba, would…"
https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

"Russia has released long-secret footage of the bomb’s detonation..."
   • Russia releases secret footage of 196...  

"Crops would be devastated, and it’s estimated that one to two billion people..."
   • I've studied nuclear war for 35 years...  

"Princeton University showed how the use of a single tactical nuclear missile could..."
   • PLAN A  

"Engineers have overcome challenges including temperatures of over 2000 degrees..."
Hypersonic Missile Nonproliferation, The RAND Corporation:
   • Hypersonic Missile Nonproliferation  

"If Russia launches traditional nuclear missiles at the US..."
https://www.nti.org/analysis/articles...

Nuclear protests:
https://www.thenation.com/article/arc...

The Doomsday clock, by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists:
https://thebulletin.org/