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ever use a nuclear weapon retaliation is far out of line and combined with cuentplto aetp ti ate preventative for that bush took against iraq for the same ran lkkeor h nk? guest: is a little strange people and shon pundits are worried aboutia n rtre ildnd ie eye adst clwes.

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have to be careful. we go to war we cannot ancipate we do not want to sethatoviein el kec itbsis to reach a conversation how to handle the problem. >>ost: yotao >>sttie was up the, activist, in favor of usingamerica thhtce o lead the t lait py la inksus r not

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bpeon h fly, where reduce the the biggest threat to the united states today? >> by a t historic ans e ide thu to frerst bst as long as we face the sebe1tility of thevn shngtherl terms not in the same ege hr that we face in the 20th century. the exceion f could depl usable d th fit on

chalpoec atno oin. those who are not very worried about surviving so the highest priority is to be sure we do evythi e tort rit ou cs. in the future if relations go badly with china it is not nevitable b not susi eryouceee ew e.ld war on the usan oso ore obama administration's move to put more forces in the

asian theater? >> guest: half way. it was of a state to talk about it. that gets the chinese excited. sendinthe marines to i m rit en vryasm . ha nothing to gain from coming up the proect wea f o a olthreas wheg d maintaining to do more if it becomes necessary. h we're talking withclmunit esbettwhmo ceooer f. c-2. bv

osr.d e eiy brain cells do we have? >> guest: we used to thnk anissn-mion but then a asng how mccabebra cellw hghwe had and where we got the numbe from. everybody ran back 100 million and i have no idea.

she developed a new method. it is not a trivial problem that is 10 of billions. deloa w ehd bue er difference is we thought we had 10 times as many glial cells that eep it oe mcnd ou oe had 1 billion but we only have 80 billion of thoe 12llllso we lost aur]