David Rosenthal: belief

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…I just got to say, it is so fortunate and insane to me that neither side ever launched. All the deterrents for all the scary things that could have come out of it, all the itchy trigger fingers, and everybody getting close, it never happened. That is a big applause to humanity that we could have done this, and no one did. This is one of the things that I mentioned at the top of the episode. Doing this research changed my mind on the war machine aspect of Lockheed in the military and the military industrial complex. I think people really believed, and I think there's a good chance this was reality. It was building all of these systems and advancing all of this capability that prevented it from being used. If we hadn't built this stuff, there's a good chance Russia would have done a first strike. Yeah, it's crazy. Okay, Lockheed, after four years, successfully does the underwater ICBM launch.…

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